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The Province home to Vancouver – which is exploring becoming a bitcoin-friendly city – maintains a ban on mining to preserve power for clean energy initiatives.

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The agency notified Unicoin of its intent to sue the company over violations related to fraud and unregistered securities.

Big tech shares like Apple, Alphabet, Tesla and Broadcom all hit record highs, lifting the Nasdaq to one, too. Dow slips again as Fed meets this week.

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(Reuters) -MicroStrategy shares briefly surged on Monday before faltering to end nearly unchanged, after the software company and bitcoin stockpiler was selected to join the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, further brightening the prospects of the stock. The $25.7 trillion index that houses the largest non-financial companies will now gain indirect exposure to bitcoin via MicroStrategy, which holds $44 billion worth of the digital currency on its balance sheet, about 2% of the total supply of the world's largest cryptocurrency. The prospect of more buying from funds that track the Nasdaq 100 could further boost MicroStrategy's stock that has surged nearly 550% this year alongside a jump in the bitcoin price.

The currency surged after Trump promised to “do something great with crypto.”