Leaked Crimean Bridge attack conversation is real – Berlin

A discussion between senior German military officers was intercepted, the nation’s defense ministry has confirmed

The leaked discussions between German military officers, including a top Air Force commander, about aiding Kiev in a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge are genuine, a German Defense Ministry spokeswoman told state broadcaster, ARD, on Saturday.

The story was broken on Friday by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who said she’d received it from Russian security officials. The journalist initially released a Russian-language transcript of the conversation and then posted the source audio file in German on social media.

The 38-minute audio dated February 19 contained a conversation between four officers of the German air force (Luftwaffe), including its commander, Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz. The military were discussing the operational and targeting details of Taurus long-range missiles that Germany was considering sending to Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/593621-german-leak-real/

As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?

The price of Bitcoin is close to its all-time high, thanks in large part to US finance giants.

Investment firms like Grayscale, BlackRock and Fidelity, are pouring billions of dollars into buying the volatile digital asset.

In the last few weeks, these powerful institutions have become so called 'Bitcoin whales'.

Because of Bitcoin's system there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins.

19 million have been created, but many are already accounted for and probably off the market.

So what other organisations or individuals are Bitcoin whales, and what does the shift in wealth mean for the digital currency that was originally created as a peer-to-peer internet money?

The figures below are estimates gathered from direct research and published information, but should give a good overview of how Bitcoin is distributed. Our data collection ended on the morning of 29 February.

Bitcoins lost forever

2.4m Bitcoins

Estimates for how many bitcoins are lost forever vary between three million to as many as six million. Bitcoins can be lost because people forget the details of their digital wallets - there is no 'customer support' in Bitcoin. Just ask James Howells, who lost 8,000 bitcoins on a discarded hard drive in Wales.

Some of these lost bitcoins might also come from abandoned criminal proceeds left untouched. According to crypto-investigators at Elliptic, 3.15 million bitcoins have been dormant for 10 years or more. Some analysts - like those from investigators Chainalysis - say Bitcoin that hasn't been moved in five years could also be lost too. So millions more bitcoins could potentially be added to the lost pile.

A loose estimate that's often agreed upon is 3.5 million. But 1.1 million of those dormant coins are likely to belong to the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, so we can take that portion out of the equation. A conservative estimate for lost coins therefore is about 2.4 million, or 11% of all bitcoins.

Crypto-exchanges

2.3m Bitcoins

Cryptocurrency exchanges act like banks for crypto-users. You can exchange your traditional money like dollars or pounds for Bitcoin and other digital tokens. K33 researchers estimate that about 2.3 million bitcoins are kept by exchanges, either on behalf of customers or as float. Binance is the world's largest exchange and is estimated to have about 550,000 bitcoins - followed by Bitfinex (403,000), Coinbase (386,000), Robinhood (146,000) and OKX (126,000). In total it is thought exchanges hold about 11% of all bitcoins.

Leaving your coins on an exchange can go wrong though, for example with the collapse of FTX which left customers without access to their coins. Some Bitcoin purists are also uneasy about how a reliance on large and increasingly regulated and legally compliant exchanges goes against the anti-establishment ethos of Bitcoin.

Unknown whales

1,600,000 Bitcoins

A Bitcoin whale is someone who holds more than 10,000 bitcoins in their digital wallet. The website Bitinfocharts uses public blockchain records to keep a Bitcoin Rich List of the 100 richest wallets, and there are about 80 wallets with 10,000 coins or more, whose owners are unknown. Owning one of these wallets would make you a billionaire. Some of them might be the wallets of people or organisations which appear elsewhere in this graph but we will never know, unless a researcher makes the link or the whale outs themselves. A loose estimate is that large whales account for about 8% of all bitcoins. … more

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68434579

Binance: Nigeria orders cryptocurrency firm to pay $10bn

Binance is understood to be one of the most popular cryptocurrency platforms in Nigeria

By Nkechi Ogbonna

BBC West Africa business reporter

The Nigerian government says it has demanded almost $10bn (£8bn) in compensation from the cryptocurrency firm, Binance.

It says Binance manipulated foreign exchange rates through currency speculation and rate-fixing, which have seen the naira lose nearly 70% of its value in recent months.

Two Binance executives were arrested in Nigeria earlier in the week.

Binance has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.

Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy and also one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency markets.

On Tuesday, Nigeria's central bank governor Olayemi Cardoso said Binance Nigeria had moved $26bn worth of untraceable funds.

"These allegations are weighty," Tilewa Adebajo CFG Advisory tells the BBC. "That's a huge sum - even more than the annual Nigeria diaspora remittances of $24bn".

"The government must have done their homework, hence the allegations."

Cryptocurrency transactions equivalent to about 12% of Nigeria's total income, or GDP, took place in the year to June 2023, according to Reuters news agency.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68451238

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>https://wltreport.com/2024/01/31/stunning-map-shows-all-food-processing-plants-that/

f you're not the video type, then see it in print below…

Here's a complied list of nearly 100 fires from 2021 and 2022 from Rumble:

1— 4/30/21 Monmouth Smithfield Foods pork processing plant

2— 7/25/21 Memphis Kellogg plant

3— 8/13/21 JBS beef plant

4— 8/24/21 Patak Meat Company

5— 7/30/21 Tyson River Valley ingredient plant

6— 10/21/21 Darigold plant

7— 11/15/21 Garrard County food plant

8—11/29/21 Maid-Rite Steak Company

9—12/13/21 San Antonio food processing, West side Foods

10—1/7/22 Hamilton Mountain poultry processing

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11—1/13/22 Cargill-Nutrene feed mill. Lacombe, La

12—1/31/22 Winston-Salem fertilizer plant

13—2/3/22 Wisconsin River Meats

14—2/3/22 Percy dairy farm

15—2/5/22 Wisconsin River Meats processing facility destroyed by fire in Mauston, Wisconsin.

16—2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas

17—2/15/22 Shearer's Foods Food processing plant explodes in Hermiston, Oregon.

18—2/16/22 Indiana Louis-Dreyfus soy processing plant

19—2/18/22 Bess View Farms

20—2/19/22 Lincoln premiere poultry

21—2/22/22 Shearer's Foods potato chip plant

22—2/22/22 Fire destroys Deli Star Meat Plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.

23—2/28/22 nutrient AG Solutions fertilizer facility burns

24—2/28/22 Shadow Brook Farm & Dutch girl Creamery burns

25—3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri

26—3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland

27—3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware

28—3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland

29—3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, Iowa

30—3/14/22 Wayne Hoover dairy farm, barn full of cows burns

313/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin

32—3/16/22 Walmart Distribution Center burns for 76 hours in Plainfield Ind.

33—3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas

34—3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa

35—3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware

36—3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland

37—3/19/22 Walmart Food Distribution center catches fire in Plainfield, Indiana

38—3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota

39—3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska

40—3/24/22 Major Fire at McCrum Potato Plant in Belfast, Maine.

41—3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska

42—3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa

43—3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

44—3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota

45—3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa

46—3/29/22 Maricopa, Az. Food Pantry burns down 50,000 pounds of Food destroyed in Maricopa, Arizona.

47—3/31/22 Rio Fresh Onion factory damaged by fire in San Juan, Texas.

48—3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa

49—3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa

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50—4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina

51—4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

52—4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

53—4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina

54—4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska

55—4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota

56—4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire.

57—4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant

58—4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

59—4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.

60—4/14/22 Salinas food processing plant

61—4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

62—4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota

63—4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon

64—4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

65—4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Colorado

66—4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota

67—4/21/22 Plane crashes into and destroys General Mills

68—4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

69—4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

70—4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah

71—4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania

72—4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska

73—4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers

74—4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods a chicken processing company based in Delaware killed nearly 2 million chickens

75—4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

76—4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado

77—4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma

78—5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

79—5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota

80—5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

81—5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota

82—5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

83—5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania

84—5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

85—5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan

86—5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

87—5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

88—5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

89—5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

90—5/19/22 Freight train derailment Jensen Beach FL

91—5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota

92—5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

93—5/29/22 200,000 Chickens killed in fire in Minnesota

94—5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens chickens destroyed at Forsman egg farm facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota

95—6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania And

96— S & P Meats Burn Down in Spokane, WA. Gone In Summer 2021

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