EnrollSA is Bexar County's volunteer coalition of organizations helping people to enroll in ACA insurance.
There are nine days left to sign up for health insurance coverage for 2019 on the Affordable Care Act marketplace, with open enrollment ending on Dec. 15.
During the last week of enrollment, beginning Dec. 10, EnrollSA support locations will extend their hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
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While health care advocates agree marketplace advertising and assistance are key to maintaining and increasing enrollment, only two community organizations in Texas – Change Happens, a clinic based in Houston, and MHP Salud, a community health group working in the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and El Paso – received federal funding for health insurance navigator programs for 2019 coverage, totaling $1.3 million in grants.
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About 1 million Texans signed up for ACA coverage for 2018, according to CMS reports, including 73,621 Bexar County residents, with adults age 55-64 leading local enrollment rates. A study by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that 90 percent of Texans enrolled in ACA plans were eligible for subsidies to offset the monthly cost.
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Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and Barbara Jane Reyes, Diwata, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters for the deaf and hearing impaired may be requested a week in advance by email, editor@poetryflash.org)
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Mapmaking!
Thread starter Woollybear
Writing Genre
Science Fiction | Fantasy
Ideas bounce around in my head
*hears something riffling in the distance*
Cultured vulture
A dimension of pure BEES
I should post the pseudo-geological map I did for Sisyphus.
Kjbartolotta
Potentially has/is dog
Found my old DeviantArt account from ten(!) years ago, most of these images are too big to post so enjoy the links.
I did this for a map contest and it turned out pretty good, despite how ridiculous some of the Celtic borrowings are.
I never finished this thing, but put something like 100+ hours into it before it got borked.
I have no idea how to reproduce either of these maps. Since then, my style has gotten much simpler and uglier, since I'm only mapping for reference atm. One of the these days I might teach myself GIMP to produce a stylized BW version of this.
Woollybear
Wow! I love the sense of depth in the ocean, and the shading, and so pretty. Nicely done!
Holy Mercator, how did you make the second? Is it hand-drawn? It's gorgeous! (As it should be. Good cartography is art. Google Maps and the ugly sameness of every map now is the worst development in cartography since the Peters projection.)
i don't have too many fantasy maps, alas. I've created a lot of metro maps for cities that don't exist, though.
Albedo said:
I used one the tutorials on Cartographers guild and added so much secret sauce that I can never reproduce the recipe. All digital. It's extremely unfinished, I never could get the rivers or borders looking right. If I ever get back into I'd try for a more old-fashioned style, classic pointy mountains as opposed to the more realistic long chains.
The shading on the mountain ranges is really good. I wish I could do that. It reminds me of the late nineteenth--mid twentieth century style with hand-topographic shading that Rand McNally/Bartholemews perfected (I have strong feelings about maps). If I ever made some serious fantasy maps they'd be in that style.
You and me both. IIRC, getting the shading right on the mountains was maddening. Ultimately, I prefer a style that doesn't require the pen tool and so many intricacies of bevels and shading. I've gotten more into a pixel mapping style, good for the screen but bad for print (might dig some of those out).
Damn, now you got me thinking about maps...
... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
purportedly from Suárez Miranda, Travels of Prudent Men, Book Four, Ch. XLV, Lérida, 1658
Y'know, Google Earth reminds me of Borges' map. I'm not sure that's good. I'm booking a holiday to Montreal, but I've already entirely explored the city in 3D and streetview, so I don't really need to go now.
A (very cropped) example of my more recent, simplified pixely map style. Like I said, works great for online but for print, you're gonna hafta hand-draw it or learn vectors.
Just started a very ambitious mapping project last night, curse you mapmaking thread!!!
LOL You are tempting me to post a rough not-done version of mine but I won't yet.
Love the natural history vibe on yours--geology and so on--climatology a bit, etc--Mine definitely has a different aspect than yours, and I call out certain details, and have no color of course. The one I'm doing is clearly influenced by Nate in the original WASD Youtube link on this thread. I'll link an example of that look and vibe, which belongs to someone else entirely, not me, but gives you an idea of what I'm slowly generating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mapmaking/comments/9w421n/ive_started_a_dd_campaign_in_the_past_few_months/
Like I said, fantasy world building, D&D campaign feel--but it works for the novel and I'm enjoying it. I also keep referring to the Narnia map, because frankly, I think it's fantastic:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07453NQLK/?tag=absowrit-20
Particularly the trees... And labels, coastline, borders.
(I've been working on my appendices today, which currently have eight sections ranging from timeline to world religions to glossary of terms. I need to work on the map... but have fallen into this other hole today and that's good to get done, too.)
I really like the classic, hand-drawn mapmaking style (and trust me, I have those too), but can't draw for pudding. People can do amazing things with stamps and brushes tho, but hand-drawn always has that certain something. Now I want a drawing tablet.
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Kjbartolotta said:
Use software to generate the draft, then use tracing paper or graph paper to copy it by hand?
AW Admin said:
Heh, that's one way to do it, but I usually go in reverse. Digital is so forgiving and there are so many fun techniques that never *quite* look authentic but are so close. Dunno, like I said I'm now so much more information over aesthetics than I used to be, curious how I'd go about it if I ever need to do a 'pretty' map.
After discussing this with the mods, I started a thread for map discussion in Art & Design.
Several of the mods pointed out that SF & F are not the only writers who create maps, so a less genre specific thread for disussing and posting images of maps you create seems to make more sense.
So, after getting kind of excited about trying to put together my own map and posting it in the new thread, it occurred to me to see if any colleges offered classes on map-making (or cartography), and while there are lots of courses and entire degrees in this field, it seems like everything is focused on the digital side of things using software and computers (think Esri, and GIS - Geographic Information Systems). I took a look at this site: https://www.esri.com/training/new-and-retired-training/ to see if there are any official courses that had previously been offered here and did not see any.
While I realize that digital is the way things have been going, just like anything artistic, there's something more powerful to me about something created by hand that just takes things to the next level. Then it occurred to me - wonder if there would be enough interest to enlist the talents of people like Nathan (from the first post on Youtube) to assemble a course of sorts on how to hand draw maps and cartography. I can't imagine the audience of people would be so small that there's no interest whatsoever.
Thoughts? Would anyone know of where to go, or how to go about generating interest in hand drawing maps?
mrsmig
Write. Write. Writey Write Write.
Seconded, provided we're all super-good about obeying the rule on image sizes, I'd love to get a map thread going. Wish I still had my old ones, but might still have a map or two to share...
There are a couple of threads (mostly in the nature section) that have large images in them, with a warning in the title about the size of those images. You could ask the AW Admin if it would be okay to start a map thread with a similar caveat.
I've been asked a couple of times by readers of my fantasy series if I'm going to have maps of my world available. It's one of those things I never had time for when I was on a trade publisher's schedule, but the idea of having them available on my website is intriguing.
mrsmig said:
I started a thread for posting images of maps by members in Art and Design.
Has anyone here used Intuos / Wacom? It's a pad that interfaces with photoshop so you can do everything via stylus.
I'll be transitioning to that but am a-quaking in my boots about it, because I have never used it. Like it's gonna be a huge learning curve and time sink.
Hubby bought the thing a few years ago, and uses it; Daughter uses it when she's home, and I've never touched it. So am nervous but if anyone here is a sounding board or can throw me a supportive 'there, there, it's just technology, you can handle this,' that would help get me past the hump.
:nervous:
Your rifts sound so cool, and I'd love to see a map. And fwiw I've found drawing to be creatively fulfilling--like it meets a need when the writing isn't going anywhere for some reason. You probably have that sort of experience with performance.
I can't say that my map is any good, but it's useful to readers, makes the world more real, and has been satisfying to work on.
Patty said:
Just play with it, and go look at the videos on Adobe's and Intuos sites, and on You Tube.
Tablets are crazy awesome. You're gonna have fun.
Yes I've used Wacom a lot in a previous life of photography but have not picked one up in a while. You can start small for less than $50 I think but if it's like anything else you'll end up wishing you'd invested more initially and not gone the incremental route.
I think the Bamboo Fun is the entry level one these days.
We have the tablet--I think it's top of the line but really have no idea about these things. The idea about watching videos on the programs is good.
I could use some "beta readers" for my map mock up. If any of you are free to give feedback... about font, greyscale, things that work for you and don't work, shoot me a pm?
I'm generally content with how it's coming along. Current mockup was just a matter of copying a bunch of cropped layers into Preview (on my laptop). No Wacom yet. Tons of layers because I'm playing with locations of things. Huge file size because I'm trying to keep all information on each layer. (this is becoming a problem, LOL, MORE MEMORY!)
That's the problem I have with Photoshop - it's a pixel-based editor and does destructive editing when you flatten. The only way to retain edit functions in to save as PSD files with massive sizes.
I have long since switched to Lightroom which is a vector based editor so doesn't take up anywhere near the file size requirements as it's heavier partner - full Photoshop. My only problem here is that the last version that had perpetual licensing was LR3, and that doesn't support the raw files for my current camera. My workaround for now is to convert to a DNG (adobe digital negative - which is an open sourced raw converter put out by Adobe.)
So, my option is to stay where I'm at and keep the extra step in my workflow or switch to paying Adobe $20 a month for life.
That said, my workflow is for photos that are created in a camera and you would be from a scan so considerably easier. You might want to look at it if you're running into hardware and memory limits. I'm not sure how advanced it's drawing capabilities have come since LR3, but know they've been touted.


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Q: Why broadcasting is slower than for loop in this case? I wrote a simple code to compare the performance of broadcasting vs for loop. The code is as below:
import numpy as np

D = 3072
num_train = 5000
test = np.random.rand(D)
X_train = np.random.rand(num_train, D)

def time_function(f, *args):
    """
    Call a function f with args and return the time (in seconds) that it took to execute.
    """
    import time
    tic = time.time()
    f(*args)
    toc = time.time()
    return toc - tic

def one_test_one_loop():
    dists = np.zeros(num_train)
    for i in range(num_train):
        square_sum = np.sum((test - X_train[i]) ** 2)
        dists[i] = square_sum ** (1 / 2)

def one_test_no_loop():
    dists = np.zeros(num_train)
    square_diffs = (test - X_train) ** 2
    square_sums = np.sum(square_diffs, 1)
    dists = square_sums ** (1 / 2)

one_loop_time, no_loop_time = 0, 0
for i in range(10):
    one_loop_time += time_function(one_test_one_loop)
    no_loop_time += time_function(one_test_no_loop)

print ("X_train's shape: (%d, %d)" % X_train.shape)
print ("test's shape: (%d, )" % test.shape)
print('One loop version took %f seconds' % one_loop_time)
print('No loop version took %f seconds' % no_loop_time)

And the result is as below:
X_train's shape: (5000, 3072)
test's shape: (3072, )
One loop version took 0.484136 seconds
No loop version took 0.934610 seconds

Basically, I'm computing the L2 distances between one test sample to all the 5000 train data. And the time function just returns the running time of a function.
I was expecting that broadcasting will be faster than the loop version, however, the broadcasting version is two times slower than the loop version. Why?

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By Our Bureau Published On Monday, November 23rd, 2020, 3:14:46 PM IST Last Updated Tuesday, January 5th, 2021, 3:07:14 AM IST
Union Home Minister Amit Shah "showed" people that he was eating food cooked by tribals at a Bankura home, though what he had actually eaten was taken from outside, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged today.
Speaking at a meeting in Khatra of Bankura district, Banerjee said that while people saw the tribal family chopping vegetables and spreading coriander over several dishes, in reality Shah did not eat the food cooked there. Instead, food from outside – including basmati rice and poppy seat fritters (postor bora) – was eaten by the Union Home Minister. She alleged that the food and the cook had been taken there. She said that the family was told they would be offered help to their child who was suffering from some ailment and that the Union Home Minister would eat lunch in their home.
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Shah had visited West Bengal on a two-day trip on November 5 and 6 and had taken lunch in the home of a tribal family in Bankura's Chaturdhi village on the first day. Banerjee also criticised the fact that Shah had garlanded the statue of a nameless tribal hunger under the impression that it was a statue of Birsa Munda, an anti-colonial leader.
She said that it was an insult to the tribal leader and to the people of Bengal, and added that her party workers had decided to set up a statue of Birsa Munda there, and from next year, the leader's birthday would be a holiday in the state calendar.
BJP leaders meanwhile said that Banerjee was losing support among the tribal people and none of her allegations would help her get people's support in the region.
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The Cassandras of computers (1/7)
The streaming chronicles (2/4)
The future that wasn't
The publishing industry in Japan
The proof is in the printing
Family Gekijyo (month 3)
Laughing matters
The last shogun
In the textbooks, at least, the 1868 Meiji Restoration ended the rule of the shoguns and reestablished the reign of the emperors. The effect, however, was to create a government where the "separation of powers" simply meant that the powers of the government were all separated.
Oh, those powers were, on paper, vested in the emperor. So had they been during the shogunate. It's just that from the 17th century through the early 19th, the Tokugawa shogun unquestionably controlled the emperor. Now nobody controlled the emperor. And the emperor didn't control anything either.
In a deadly game of king of the hill, the years in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and WWII were punctuated by a series of attempted coups. None succeeded, but all had the effect of pushing the government further to the right in hopes of deflecting the next military revolt, until the army was operating without any practical constraints.
Echoes of the first half of the 16th century, when the slow rot of the Ashikaga shogunate ignited battles amongst the military governors that culminated in the Warring States period.
Lacking the checks and balances of civilian oversight, the Japanese army ended up starting a small war in China that grew out of control, basically Vietnam on a continental scale. When the U.S. cut off oil and scrap metal exports to Japan as a response, the military lashed out without considering its capabilities or the military consequences.
Thanks to the military doctrine of Kantai Kessen, meaning a winner-take-all contest between battleships, the Japanese war effort was doomed from the start. Japanese military leaders couldn't stop believing in Kantai Kessen because it had proved so decisive during the Russo-Japanese War.
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Germany must be beaten; Germany must know that she is beaten; Germany must feel that she is beaten. Her defeat must be expressed in terms and facts which will, for all time, deter others from emulating her crime, and will safeguard us against their repetition.
Despite all the treaties signed and reparations extracted at Versailles, between the two world wars, Germany acceded to none of these conditions. But in August of 1945, as John Dower vividly lays out in Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Japan very much did.
The atomic bomb was considerably less destructive than Curtis LeMay's ongoing firebombing campaigns. But it forced Stalin's hand and that forced the Japanese government to finally face reality. And when he finally did face reality, the atomic bomb gave the emperor a transcendent power to whom he could surrender Japan's wartime ideology.
This time, history would not repeat itself.
Though in a very real sense, history was repeating itself for the fourth time. In 1185, Minamoto Yoritomo destroyed the Taira clan—the power behind the throne—and moved the capital of Japan to Kamakura, inaugurating the rule of the shoguns. On and off for the next 700 years, the emperor reigned as little more than a figurehead.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu consolidated power after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the country breathed a sigh of relief and mostly aligned itself with the new regime. Like Ieyasu himself, it was an opportunistic resolution that demanded little in the way of ideological conformity, except to go along to get along, a social compact that worked.
In the mid-1860s, as the Tokugawa regime crumbled around them and the center could no longer hold, this opportunistic ambivalence was expressed in the "Ee ja nai ka" movement, an anarchic yet strangely playful popular uprising that proclaimed, "So what? Why not? Who cares?"
In the late summer of 1945, the population was too exhausted to dance in the streets. But they'd had enough of ideology. Observes John Dower, when General MacArthur arrived in Japan on August 30 of that year,
he easily became a stock figure in the political pageantry of Japan: the new sovereign, the blue-eyed shogun, the paternalistic military dictator, the grandiloquent but excruciatingly sincere Kabuki hero.
Dower wryly concludes, "Indeed, the response of huge numbers of Japanese was that the supreme commander was great, and so was democracy." So it comes as no surprise that they should so readily switch their allegiances to the man who promised them much less torment and a much better future.
The grudge and the dream
Kantai Kessen
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Evandro Oliveira
Evandro Samuel Ribeiro dos Santos Oliveira is professor of corporate communication at HMKW in Berlin since 2017 and director of the master's degree in Public Relations and Digital Marketing; he also lectures at the University of Münster, University of Mannheim, University of Leipzig and Leipzig School of Media (Germany). Since November 2018, he is Vice President of the Organizational and Strategic Communication section of the International Academic Communication Association ECREA. He has been a guest speaker and lecturer at several European and South American universities and institutions, has produced more than 40 articles and scientific presentations. In 2014, he was president of the German network of young communication and politic researchers (naprok). Evandro holds a bachelors and master's degree from the University of Minho and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho (Dr. phil.) and in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Leipzig (Dr. rer. Pol.).
His main research areas are strategic communication, NGO communication, public relations, online communication and political communication. Between 2012 and 2016 he was Associate Researcher at the University of Leipzig, as well as a master's degree in communication management and a bachelor's degree in communication science lecturer. He was a visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Rey Juan Carlos I University, University of São Paulo, University of Beira Interior, ISCAP and INP. He also lectured at the Free University of Berlin, HTW – Berlin and dab- Design Akademie Berlin.
He holds the 2019 bi-annual Award for Excellence in Academic Research for his doctoral dissertation "The Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication" – awarded by the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) together with the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) and the ICCO (International Communications Consultancy Organization). The theory was published in 2019 by Springer Nature (The Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication – Strategic … – Springerhttps: //www.springer.com ›book) and a paper on the Journal of Communication Management.
He began his professional career in 1996 as a journalist and worked, among others, at Lusa, SIC, Newspapers and Radios for over 10 years. After 2004 he started to carry out projects in Public Relations and Communication. Among others, he collaborated with the European Space Agency, Greenpeace, European Commission, UNICEF, Amnesty International, 350.org, Pay Pal, MFG – Public Agency for Innovation; Government of Catalonia and the Regional Ministry of Finance and Economy of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In addition, he worked for organizations such as Fujitsu Services, NetApp, Det Norske Veritas, Air-Berlin and KPN-Dutch Telekom. He also guided and led the creative team for national and international communication and marketing projects in 2010 at QuadrigaArt Agency in New York and Washington, where he developed campaigns for the Smithsonian Institutions.


This Mjölnir pendant is available in solid Copper and Bronze castings and is antiqued to give some "age" to the design. Based on a rune of the hammer of Thor, the great Norse god of thunder. If you're going to wear a tiny weapon around your neck, it should definitely be this one. Mjölnir is the powerful hammer of Thor, the god of thunder, who is also the god of some pretty great other stuff like oak trees and strength.
His hammer isn't just any hammer - its name literally means "that who smash." So, it's safe to say this hammer isn't for building birdhouses. Mjölnir pendants have been extremely popular for a long time - pendants have been found that were made as early as 900 AD. These days Mjölnir pendants serve the exact same purpose they always have - to provide the protection of Thor in times when you need a little extra strength and power, like when you're starting a new job or asking your boss for a raise.


Jailbreak! How BGP helped one business escape from industry imprisonment.
Robin Crumby and Victoria Mellor don't at first sight bring to mind Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This husband and wife team exude charm, energy and passion for their business. And they're certainly not in the business of robbing banks. By the standards of the publishing industry, however, they are definitely renegades.
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Freshwater Life of Britain and Northern Europe
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A beautifully illustrated guide to the wide variety of species found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Britain and Europe.
Covering northern Europe, including the mainly freshwater environment of the Baltic Sea, 'Pocket Guide Freshwater Life' describes and illustrates over 900 species of plant and animal visible with the naked eye, from damsels and dragonflies to beetles and molluscs.
This is the ideal freshwater companion, the most comprehensive pocket guide to the subject. It also makes a superb companion volume to 'Pocket Guide Sea Shore'.
An easy-to-use key guides the user quickly to the correct species without using complex terminology. Each species is illustrated in colour with the relevant text on the facing page for quick and accurate identification.
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Why You Should Visit Bali Island Indonesia At Least Once?
There are many story about Bali, for people who visit bali in their holidays or even from many movies that shows about how amazing this Island. However, you might scratching your head and wondering, why Bali is so popular and why people talk about this small Island in Indonesia a lot. Some say that Bali is simply a bars, place to party and beaches, some even say that Bali is overrated places you shouldnt care about. Today, its my job to give you some information about bali and why you should visit bali island indonesia at least once in your lifetime.
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The third reason is number of infinity pools that are lauded as one of the best in the world. In Bali, there are so many pools type that will amaze you, however one of the best pool you can find is Infinity pools that spils from the edge of the cliffs into the ocean. There are many infinity pools from clifftop to jungle retreat pools that will calm your mind and bring you into serenity.
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Bitcoin Eyes for Bigger Move, says Market Analyst
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Bitcoin (BTC) gained some momentum over the weekend after dropping to the $32K level. The leading cryptocurrency was up by 2% in the last 24 hours to hit $34,371 during intraday trading, according to CoinMarketCap.
Market analyst Lark Davis believes that Bitcoin is eyeing a big move because volatility will soon go through the roof. He explained:
"Volatility is coming! Bollinger bands width approaching the massive lows that indicate a big move. Basically a ticking time bomb at this point."
Meanwhile, on-chain analyst William Clemente III echoed these sentiments. He noted:
"It's official (see shaded orange), Bitcoin is entering its first major volatility squeeze since the one that pushed the price down off ATHs in April and the one that propelled us into the bull run in July 2020. Not a common occurrence."
Bitcoin has lacked considerable energy to push it out of the $30-40K range for more than two months recently after the plunge from an all-time high (ATH) of $64.8K recorded in mid-April.
As a result, the crypto community has been waiting with bated breath to see its next move.
Bitcoin supply on crypto exchanges drops
Bitcoin has been leaving exchanges in droves, as recently revealed by crypto analytic firm Santiment.
Therefore, BTC has been finding its way into cold storage, which signifies a holding culture. This is a bullish sign because it reduces the chances of a considerable amount of Bitcoin being sold off, which could drive its price down based on market forces.
As Bitcoin continues eyeing a clear direction outside the $30K-40K range, whether the speculated big move will happen sooner than later remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, the amount invested by institutions and corporates in the Bitcoin market is a small per cent of their total cash reserve. Notably, there are around 41,000 publicly traded companies globally, of which less than two dozen have taken positions in Bitcoin.
LARK DAVIS


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