Listen Very Carefully

Another Brexit benefit-for Spain that is

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59857275

philat98

If energy prices remain high a lot of steel industries will collapse unless governments step in.

EU.flag

State aid is prohibited under EU law.

https://ec.europa.eu/competition-policy/state-aid_en

Fredbargate

What has this to do with Gibraltar?
Or am I missing something?

Stingychips

Does Gibraltar still have its own British infantry regiment. I remember when I was in basic training and there were a few Spanish lads in my platoon that wanted to join Gib regiment. Not one of them lasted lol. Think being out in the Scottish mountains for days on end with no sleep, soaking wet finished the last one off before passing out.

Fredbargate

Yes

https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/c...ltar-regiment/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Gibraltar_Regiment

+ a British Military Airfield

+ a Naval Base

+ a Nuclear Berth

At the moment from my balcony I can see one Grey Funnel Liner

There were three here along with a USA nuclear submarine over Christmas and New Year

Fredbargate

Military Movements Review - December 2021

It can safely be said that 2021 really did leave the best for last in terms of the tempo of military activity on the Rock. The final month of the year saw an unprecedented amount of movements both at sea and in the air with some records broken and even an event occurring which hasn’t been seen in Gibraltar since our records began in 1976.

https://www.yourgibraltartv.com/blog...-december-2021

DLC

In that case, could it also be the first country to be sued for deliberately making climate change worse?

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021...deutsche-bank/

Fredbargate

My understanding is that a cryptocurrency hub is a place where the records are kept and traded.

Minning does not take place at the hub.

Therefore this has no more of a carbon footprint than any other stock exchange

Stock exchanges all over the world trade in physical commodoties some of which are mined using massive amounts of rescources as well as producing products that have massive carbon footprints.

Oil and coal being just two examples.

So if you want to reduce the size of the world's carbon footprint just cease these activities.

But the only sure way to reduce the increase in the world's temperature is to remove the prime cause

The human population.

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DLC

Adding transactions to the ledger, distributing copies of the ledger to people, and everyone verifying those transactions also has a cost. Cryptocurrencies rely on miners as the mining process doesn't just generate coins, it verifies transactions as well, that way transactions can't be altered by one person and distributed to everyone else. You can't separate transactions from mining.

Cryptocurrencies have a huge carbon footprint greater than many countries, but if you want to forget about that argument, Sweden has 54% renewable energy and still wants to ban cryptocurrencies because it's just a huge exercise in wasting electricity that could better be used for something else.

Fredbargate

If you are so concerned about carbon footprints then maybe you should be working as I mentioned above on the reduction of the human population.

SanNico

To be fair Bill Gates is probably only against it because it wasn't his idea. It's greener than most other revenue streams. Take Bitcoin mining as an example, To mine one coin takes 707 kilowatt hours of energy which according to the article is the equivalent usage of a typical US household over 24 days. That coin is currently trading at around 38k Euro. The electricity used to produce a ton of steel is about the same which trades at around 350 Euro per ton.

As for Sweden, I wonder how their un-greenwashed footprint would look if they on-shored their biggest operations like IKEA, Spotify, H&M and Volvo? The same can be said for most of the western world, all carbon heavy operations are in Asia and we beat them down for it.

Fredbargate

The border closure is perhaps the most transformative event in the history of the modern British Gibraltarian. It not only shaped and continues to shape Gibraltar’s relationship with Spain, but has sown a pervasive mistrust of Spanish politics that lasts to this day.

IN PERSPECTIVE: When Spain closed the frontier, it made Gibraltarians mistrust Spain forever | Gibraltar Panorama

Fredbargate

UK and Gibraltar continue to prepare for no agreement

http://www.gibraltarpanorama.gi/177572

Fredbargate

WHEN HITLER PLANNED TO CAPTURE THE ROCK

http://www.gibraltarpanorama.gi/177637

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