U.S. Government Owns Way More Bitcoin Than Any Other Country–So Why Aren’t They Selling It? | Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT, citing security concerns | Beef prices hit record high as southwestern US recovers from worst dry spell in 1,200 years | How I Read 100 Books in a Year

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� � � � � � U.S. Government Owns Way More Bitcoin Than Any Other Country–So Why Aren't They Selling It? - Forbes    From the increasingly ferocious federal crackdown on the cryptocurrency business, it might appear the U.S. government cannot stand digital currencies. Yet there is a love-hate dynamic: the Treasury is sitting on a stash of 207,189 bitcoin, worth $5 billion, by far the largest such state-owned hoard. While many other countries have been disposing of their crypto, according to new research provided exclusively to Forbes, the U.S. has been steadily adding to its supply as a result of asset seizures. Last year, the U.S. held 69,640 bitcoins according to the research a doctoral thesis by Sachin Jaitly, a general partner at investment advisor Morgan Creek Capital. That's 94% of the bitcoin in global government coffers at the time. New York-based crypto analytics startup and Morgan Creek portfolio company Elementus provided data for the research by comparing events, such as the 2020 Justice Department seizure of $1 billion worth of bitcoin, to transactions visible on the public bitcoin blockchain. "By matching publicly available information through the media and blockchain, Elementus is able to map out the universe of sovereign digital wallets and maintain this map over time," according to the thesis. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT, citing security concerns - CNBC    Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI. But for a brief time on Thursday, employees of the software company weren't allowed to use the startup's most famous product, ChatGPT, CNBC has learned. "Due to security and data concerns a number of AI tools are no longer available for employees to use," Microsoft said in an update on an internal website. CNBC also viewed a screenshot that showed that ChatGPT couldn't be accessed on corporate devices. Microsoft and OpenAI representatives didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Continued here � � � � � � Beef prices hit record high as southwestern US recovers from worst dry spell in 1,200 years - Markets Insider    Beef prices have spiked to a record high recently as a megadrought that slammed the US a few years ago shrank cattle supplies.  Retail prices hit $8 a pound, topping the previous record of $7.90 during the pandemic, according to a Financial Times analysis of data from the Agriculture Department. That's after the southwestern US saw the lowest rainfall it has seen in 1,200 years during the 2020-2021 season, according to a study published last year. Continued here � � � � � � How I Read 100 Books in a Year - Harvard Business Review    Many of us complain that we don’t have enough time to read books. But the truth is, we do. Think about how many texts and alerts and notifications and work emails and personal emails and news headlines and fly-by tickers and blog feeds and Twitter spews and Instagram comments you’re reading each day. To read more books, you need to cut some of that out of your life. Start by making your phone less addictive. Put your phone in greyscale mode. Move all of the apps off the main screen so it’s blank when you open it. Leave your cracked screen cracked. Unfollow all of the news. And don’t read on a device that can do other things.  Reading real books, on paper, lets you be the full director of the show. No voice replaces your mental voice, no formatting or display screen affects the artistic intentions of the writer. No notices or alerts distract you from taking a deep dive into the text. The benefits of reading more are clear: Reading triggers our mirror neurons and opens up the parts of our brains responsible for developing empathy, compassion, and understanding. Reading makes you a better leader, teacher, parent, and sibling. So keep turning the page. Continued here

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