Twitter’s recent fact-checking efforts have caused a stir in the crypto space. Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin, and Gemini exchange founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, expressed their opinions on recent efforts at social media censorship. “I’ve talked before about the rise of corporations regulating governments but here we have Twitter soft-censoring the U.S. president on the…
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Evidence from 10 years old tweets helps eliminate Hal Finney as a viable Satoshi Nakamoto candidate. A tweet from 2010 may provide evidence that Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In a recent Cointelegrpah interview, Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010, said that Satoshi had no familiarity with the Mac ecosystem:…
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It’s designed to capture attention from high-profile people that others want to hear from. A new kind of cryptocurrency tipbot allows users to pay others to answer their questions on social media, providing a new tool to pool data in the ecosystem. Liser Lee of CCTip told Cointelegraph that the system can help drive engagement…
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The Twitter CEO announced on May 21 that he would be giving $5 million to Humanity Forward, a UBI-proponent established by Andrew Yang. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment platform Square, is donating $5 million to Humanity Forward, a group launched by crypto-friendly former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, as part of both entrepreneurs’ efforts…
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After posting Bitcoin inquiry on Twitter, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling held her own amid a flood of various comments from the crypto community. Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, recently asked for an explanation of Bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter, bringing an onslaught of commentary from the crypto community. “This started as a joke, but now…
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Former Google analytics advocate and current CMO for software startup Think3, Adam Singer, went on a rant about the crypto space recently. In the midst of rising prices, Adam Singer showed his disapproval of the entire crypto space, describing it as cultlike. “Bitcoin went from a creative economic experiment to cult of over exposed, get…
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One of the most successful investors of all time, Warren Buffett might be killing his reputation by being so harsh on Bitcoin, Max Keiser believes. Warren Buffett, the fifth-richest person on the planet, has repeatedly expressed his unfriendly stance toward Bitcoin (BTC). One of the most successful investors of all time, Buffett might be killing…
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Twitter co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, described Bitcoin’s white paper as poetry in a recent interview. In a podcast interview with tech researcher, Lex Fridman, Twitter CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, referred to Bitcoin’s white paper as “Poetry.” “I think the Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the most seminal works of computer science in the…
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Crypto-social media chatter regarding the halving spiked overnight, after being overshadowed by gold in February and the coronavirus in March. With less than three weeks until the halving, the subject has overtaken the coronavirus as a leading Bitcoin narrative on Twitter — and it’s once again starting to dominate media coverage. On April 23, crypto…
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Crypto-banking solution Dharma has implemented a function to send U.S. dollar payments to any Twitter handle, regardless of geographic location. Blockchain banking solution Dharma has implemented a new feature called Social Payments, allowing users to send U.S. dollars to any Twitter handle. An April 21 tweet announcing the move explained that payments can be made…
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