Bitcoin Beach, child labour, Oman’s youth and an $18.9M coin

Gather round, folks, it’s that time of the week again.

That’s how many users Bitcoin Beach, a pilot crypto project in the small El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte, has.

Young people took to the streets last month to demand more economic opportunity just weeks after the country introduced austerity measures meant to offset Oman’s burgeoning debt.

A new report from the United Nations this week found that about 160 million children around the world are working – up 8.4 million over the last four years.

The level China’s fertility rate per woman slowed to in 2020, despite Beijing loosening its stringent one-child policy and allowing families to have up to three kids.

That’s how much trade happens between Israel and China – a sizable spike from the $1bn trade level at the turn of the century.

Israel has looked past China’s vocal support for Palestine and Israeli leaders have not paid much attention to China’s response to last month’s Gaza war, which as one Israeli expert said is viewed as “lip service” in Tel Aviv.

That’s how much a gold coin sold for at a Sotheby’s record-smashing auction in New York on Tuesday.

But all 1933 Double Eagles were ordered destroyed when President Franklin Roosevelt, in an effort to lift America’s battered economy from the depths of the Great Depression, took the nation off the gold standard.

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