Bitcoin 2021 attendees’ positive COVID-19 tests are going viral
Social distancing, mask mandates, and proof of vaccination were not required to attend the event. Some of the attendees who attended the Bitcoin 2021 event in Miami last weekend have tested positive for Covid-19 after returning home from the conference, leading to a wave of negative media coverage and social media speculation it could turn into a “super spreader event.”Bloomberg called Miami Bitcoin a "Covid hot spot" while Gizmodo reported the conference "May be the latest COVID-19 super spreader event."Arcane Research CIO, Eric Wall, was among those to contract the virus, tweeting....
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Bitcoin plunged alongside the US stock futures in early morning trading on Friday after Donald Trump revealed that he and his wife Melania tested positive for coronavirus. Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) […]
The conference did not enforce a vaccine mandate or social distancing and said that only “some public locations” required participants to wear masks. The transmissibility of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 seems to have affected many attendees at the ETHDenver developer conference, who reported symptoms and positive test results following the event.Many social media posts from ETHDenver attendees after the conclusion of the Feb. 11–20 conference claim they tested positive for the virus. A local news outlet reported that more than 12,000 people from 100 countries attended the event, which....
Progressive Care, a company that operates a chain of pharmacies in the United States, has announced it’s now accepting cryptocurrency for its Covid-19 rapid testing services. Customers are welcome to pay with bitcoin for the quick tests offered at its Pharmcorx locations using a dedicated QR code. Pharmacies Offer Quick Covid Tests for Bitcoin Florida-based Progressive Care Inc. announced in a press release that the company now accepts bitcoin (BTC) as payment for Covid-19 fast testing at its Pharmcorx locations. CEO Alan Jay Weisberg pointed out that the option will allow....
Under the handle "Paco De La India", the YouTuber said he planned to visit 40 countries, often using Bitcoin transactions to pay for everything he needed. A YouTuber started a journey in September to see whether he could survive solely on Bitcoin as a means of payment while traveling to 40 different countries.Speaking to Cointelegraph on Monday, YouTuber Paco De La India — or “Paco from India” — said though the spread of omicron had somewhat altered his original travel plans, he was still surprised at how many people had accepted Bitcoin (BTC) in countries where crypto was in a legal or....