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El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender, meaning that businesses will be compelled to accept it as payment along with the American dollar, the official currency. The government hopes the cryptocurrency will appeal to the 70% of the population without access to a bank account.
薩爾瓦多成為首個接受比特幣作為法定貨幣的國家，這意味著企業將被迫接受比特幣與官方貨幣美元一起作為支付方式。政府希望這種加密貨幣能夠吸引70%沒有銀行賬戶的人群。
Meanwhile, America’s Justice Department recovered most of the ransom paid in bitcoin to Russian hackers who had shut down a major pipeline. The fbi was able to seize the payment by tracking the bitcoin address used by the gang. It also emerged that JBS, the world’s biggest meat-processor, paid $11m in bitcoin to cyber-criminals after they disrupted its plants.
與此同時，美國司法部追回了大部分支付給俄羅斯黑客的比特幣贖金，這些黑客曾導致一條主要的輸油管道關閉。聯邦調查局通過追蹤該團伙使用的比特幣地址，沒收了這筆款項。還有消息稱，全球最大的肉類加工企業JBS在被網絡犯罪分子破壞了工廠后，向對方支付了1100萬美元的比特幣。
The Keystone XL pipeline was officially scrapped following Joe Biden’s decision not to grant it a permit to cross American territory. The project, opposed for years by greens and Native American groups, would have carried oil from Alberta’s tar sands.
在拜登決定不授予過境美國的許可證后，Keystone XL管道正式被取消。該項目多年來一直遭到環保組織和美國原住民團體的反對，該項目原本要從艾伯塔省的油砂中提取石油。
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, is focusing on his long-standing passion for spaceflight. He and his brother will be among the first people to fly with Blue Origin, a rocketry company he founded in 2000, when it makes its first flight with crew to 100km above Earth’s surface on July 20th. Mr Bezos is stepping down as Amazon’s chief executive on July 5th.
亞馬遜創始人杰夫·貝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)正專注于他對太空旅行持之以恒的熱情中。他和他的弟弟將成為搭乘藍色起源(Blue Origin)火箭升空的首批乘客之一。藍色起源是他在2000年創立的一家火箭公司。7月20日，該公司將首次將乘客送入距地球表面100公里的高空。貝佐斯將于7月5日辭去亞馬遜首席執行官一職。
Mr Bezos may well want to escape the blue planet for a while, after revelations by ProPublica, a collection of investigative journalists, that he and the 24 other richest Americans pay little or no federal income tax. Between 2014 and 2018 this ultra-rich group, which also includes Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, paid $13.6bn in federal tax, amounting to an average tax rate of just 3.4%, according to ProPublica. For Mr Bezos it was 0.98%. The Internal Revenue Service is investigating how ProPublica got hold of data on thousands of America’s wealthiest people.
在ProPublica披露他和其他24位最富有的美國人繳納的聯邦所得稅很少或根本不繳納之后，貝佐斯很可能想暫時逃離地球，ProPublica是一家由記者構成的團隊。ProPublica的數據顯示，2014年至2018年間，包括埃隆·馬斯克和馬克·扎克伯格在內的這些超級富豪繳納了136億美元的聯邦稅，平均稅率僅為3.4%。貝佐斯則是0.98%。美國國稅局(Internal Revenue Service)正在調查ProPublica如何獲得數千名美國最富有人士的（納稅）數據。
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