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In this Wednesday March 2, 1989 file photo, Icelanders celebrate in a Reykjavik bar, as the first legal beer since 1915 went on sale in the Icelandic capital. On Friday, March 1, 2019 the country toasts the anniversary of the lifting of a decades-long ban on beer with what else? - a nationwide Beer Day.
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In this file photo dated Saturday Aug. 23, 2003, seagulls mill around in search of food as a whale is hauled onto a fishing boat after it was killed off the west coast of Iceland.
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In this photo taken on Jan. 17, 2018, a worker walks along a row of computer rigs that run around the clock 'mining' bitcoin inside the Genesis Mining cryptocurrency mine in Keflavik, Iceland. Hand in hand with the rise of bitcoin is a soaring cost of “mining' the cryptocurrency. The energy demand has developed because of the soaring cost of producing the cryptocurrency, which requires computers solving math formulas to mine the 4.2 million coins still available.
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