WAO ART #290

MicroStrategy has bought an additional $593 million worth of Bitcoin, acquiring 16,130 bitcoins at an average price of $36,785 per bitcoin. This brings their total bitcoin holdings to 174,530. The company sees bitcoin as a strategic investment and a way to protect its balance sheet.

Iris Energy Limited has acquired new T21 miners from Bitmain Technologies Delaware Limited for $18.6 million, increasing its self-mining capacity to 8.3 EH/s. The deal includes a delayed payment plan and the miners are expected to be delivered in Q1 2024.

Scotland bids farewell to its giant pandas, Yang Guang and Tian Tian, as they return to China after a 12-year stay at the Edinburgh Zoo. The pandas arrived in Scotland in 2011 and have been a popular attraction. They are the latest pandas to leave the West as exchange agreements have expired.

The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has granted a $447.8 million loan to support the construction of a 902 MWp/768 MW solar complex in Brazil. The financing will be used by Vista Alegre Comercializadora de Energia to build the 18 photovoltaic parks and their transmission systems.

Idris Elba's firm, Sherbro Alliance Partners (SAP), has partnered with Octopus Energy to build Sierra Leone's first wind farm. The project aims to provide clean electricity to local communities and help increase access to electricity in a country where only 28% of the population has access.

The Philippines will block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance as part of a crackdown on online trading platforms operating without licenses. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Binance was not registered in the country and not authorized to sell or offer securities.

The Doge-1 moon mission, funded by Dogecoin, has received regulatory approval from the NTIA, bringing it closer to its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will be the first satellite launch fully funded in DOGE tokens. The launch has been delayed from 2022 to January 2024.