The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continued to affect economic activity in the first quarter of 2021 as stringent containment measures were prolonged and supply bottlenecks emerged... https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/projections/html/ecb.projections202106_eurosystemstaff~7000543a66.en.html

The Netherlands must ban the mining, trading and holding of Bitcoin because it doesn’t meet any of the three functions of money and is handy for criminals, one Dutch official argued… https://cointelegraph.com/news/dutch-official-calls-for-complete-ban-on-bitcoin

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill to recognize cryptocurrencies under commercial law last month… https://cointelegraph.com/news/texas-regulator-allows-state-chartered-banks-to-hold-bitcoin