A Bitcoin mining site in Sichuan. Photo: EPA. On the same day, the branch of the National Development and Reform Commission in Changji, an area in the far west of Xinjiang, ordered the closure of cryptocurrency mining workshops. Currently, Xinjiang is the world’s largest Bitcoin mining region based on hashrate – a measure of the total computing power of the blockchain. On the Internet, information related to cryptocurrencies has also been thoroughly removed by China. From June 10, search results related to Huobi, Binance and OKEx – the top three cryptocurrency exchanges – were blocked on Baidu and Weibo. However, keywords like “Huobi official website”, “download Huobi” or “Is Huobi legal” still appear. This is the second time in a year that Weibo has removed keywords and content related to cryptocurrency exchanges. In March, this social network suspended the accounts of all three exchanges mentioned above. In 2019, the account of Binance co-founder He Yi, along with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, was also locked. Last week, Weibo banned a series of crypto KOLs on its platform citing “violation of principles” and “relevant laws and regulations”. China’s recent “suppression” of crypto activities is cited as financial risk. However, the country is also concerned that mining problems will compromise its environmental goals. China has a goal of becoming a carbon neutral country by 2060. Bitcoin mining nowadays consumes a lot of energy. According to the latest estimates from the Cambridge University Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), the amount of electricity used to “mine” Bitcoin amounts to 111.5 TWh per year, more than the total energy used by the Netherlands. The prevention of cryptocurrency mining will continue to be maintained by China in the future. On June 7, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) held a meeting with the main content of strengthening supervision of blockchain-related service platforms, virtual private network (VPN) services. and cross-border Internet technologies. Earlier, the National Internet Finance Association, the Bankers Association, and the Payments Association jointly issued a statement on the ban on electronic money services, and the Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission also issued a regulation, banning electronic money services. Bitcoin mining operations. “It is possible that China will issue a permanent ban on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general,” said Chen Weigang, general manager of the Financial Institutions Supervision Department of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. talk to China News Weekly .

Google’s domain in Argentina stopped working. Photo: Gonto. However, this domain name stopped working after Kuronã completed its transaction. Perhaps, Google accidentally forgot to renew the domain “google.com.ar” in this country, leading to the domain name becoming expired and listed for sale on nic.air. Kuronã’s actions are considered “cybersquatting”, acts that benefit themselves from the registration, acquisition and use of another person’s trademark, according to MercoPress . Google also quickly regained its domain, and everything worked properly after that. This incident became a hot topic on social networks when the Google domain name in Argentina could not work for nearly 3 hours and received a lot of criticism from users, according to MecroPress . Another Twitter user said that this problem arises because the NIC does not support domain auto-renewal. Google and NIC Argentina have yet to respond to the problem. Are Google search results still correct? Google’s search results are gradually dominated by too many ads, and also lead users to false information, fake brand.

Insider Instagram representatives apologized when the system suggested these keywords to people recovering from eating disorders. Cristina Criddle, a spokesperson for the app, told BBC indicates that the above error is now fixed. Having struggled with an eating disorder, Victoria Spence said that the keyword Instagram suggested could hurt newcomers. “To help people discover what they’re interested in, we’ve rolled out a new way to search on Instagram by suggesting keywords as they move to the search bar. Those suggestions, as well as ourselves. search results, limited to common interests, “a Facebook spokesperson – which owns Instagram – said in a statement to Insider . “Losing weight” should not be one of the keywords to suggest, this person added. “We’ve taken steps to prevent these terms from appearing. We apologize for causing any confusion.” Instagram says it doesn’t allow content that encourages eating disorders to appear and deletes posts as soon as it detects them. Users are allowed to talk about recovery from the disorder, but the hashtags associated with it begin with #thinspo , #proana and #anabuddy blocked. The social network also said that posts promoting super speed weight loss products were also banned. According to Dr. Bryony Bamford, Clinical Director at The London Center for Eating Disorders and Body Image, the damage happened when a user saw a keyword on Instagram. “Many people with eating disorders or recovery may be affected by useless messages they see on social media. Diet or weight loss keywords can trigger awareness of the disorder. “After recovery is a time when they are extremely vulnerable, exposure to the above factors has the risk of causing the disease again,” she said. How Instagram recommends search keywords to users. Victoria Spence, an influencer once suffering from an eating disorder, regularly shares articles about her recovery. Spence says she doesn’t believe Instagram promoting diet content is an algorithmic mistake. “Instagram is a platform to advertise, and the diet food industry is a multibillion-pound giant. The problem with content promotion revolves around ‘appetite suppression’ and ‘planning.’ Weight loss ‘on a platform with a large number of young users shows that they are normalizing diets and celebrating weight loss methods’. Spence argues that Instagram needs to improve the algorithm for diet posts to be pushed down. “The question is whether they really care about users or value profit more as businesses,” she said.