New decentralized social network protocol Nostr officially went live via mobile app stores on Wednesday. Nostr, which stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays, aims to create a censorshi...
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Elon Musk’s Hyped Up Exposé Unveils ‘Secret Blacklists’ And ‘Shadow Banning’ —Which Seem Very Similar To His Own Policies
Topline Twitter built “secret blacklists” and ran a clandestine operation to cut the visibility of targeted tweets, accounts and topics, according to the second tranche of Elon Musk’s hyped “Twitter F...
Founder Jack Dorsey Urges Musk To Release ‘Everything Without Filter’
Topline Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey urged Elon Musk to release “without filter” Twitter’s internal communications about moderation decisions relating to a r...
Another Rash Of Layoffs Could Be Coming At Twitter
Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images. Getty Images As if things couldn’t get any worse at TwitterTWTR , Elon Musk has just given employees an ultimatum that they have until Thursday to decide whether to st...
Coinbase, Block jump 12% following third quarter earnings
Coinbase and Block soared 12% a day after reporting third quarter earnings, outpacing gains by the S&P 500. Coinbase’s third-quarter results showed expenses fell to $1.1 billion from $...
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder and chief technology of Inrupt, speaking at Web Summit 2022. Sam Barnes | Sportsfile via Getty Images LISBON, Portugal — The creator of the web isn’t sold on cryp...
Twitter Shares Soar 22% After Musk Offers To Buy Company At Original Price
Topline Billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to follow through with a deal to buy Twitter at the original price, the company disclosed Tuesday, causing Twitter shares to skyrocket and possibly ending a se...
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Nike, Rent-A-Center, Carnival Cruise
People walk near the entrance to Nike store, May 25, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Konstantin Zavrazhin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Nike – ...
Can Cities Afford Guaranteed Incomes?
Some cities are experimenting with modest guaranteed income programs, but these are not the … [+] universal basic income (UBI) programs envisioned by Andrew Yang and others. getty In 2020, Andre...
Democrats More Likely To Mention Politics On Twitter Profiles, Study Finds
Topline Despite Twitter’s reputation as a political hotbed, most U.S. adults don’t use political language in their bios, though Democrats, people who tweet often and people with many followers were am...
Musk Reportedly Seeks More Financing For Twitter Acquisition
Topline Elon Musk is looking for additional equity financing for his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Reuters reported Monday, which could allow the billionaire to reduce the amount of his own...
‘Many Single Points Of Failure’—Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Issues Stark Ethereum Warning Amid Price Volatility
Jack Dorsey, the Twitter cofounder who quit the company to transition his payments company Block towards bitcoin, has developed a reputation as a so-called bitcoin maximalist—regularly trashing ethere...
Bitcoin ‘tribalism’ holding the crypto industry back, Ripple CEO says
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on Oct. 19, 2021. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images “Tribalism” around...
Why Jack Dorsey’s First-Tweet NFT Plummeted 99% In Value In A Year
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey created an NFT out of his first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9 million a year ago. In an auction this past week, the highest bid was just $280. Getty Images In December ...
‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ $2.9 Million NFT Gets $277 Bid At Auction
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (Photo by Burhaan Kinu/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK CoinDesk reported: “A non-fungible...
Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet Gets $280 Highest Bid in Reselling Auction
Buying and selling tweets became a thing with the boom in the non-fungible token (NFT) space. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his first even tweet made on the micro-blogging platform for $2.9 million...
How Chris Dixon’s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World’s Top Venture Capitalist
The Andreessen Horowitz partner is the new no. 1 on Forbes’ 21st annual Midas List of top venture investors, thanks to savvy bets on tokens, NFTs and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. In fact, a dozen...
Cash App Users Can Now Invest Their Paychecks Into Bitcoin
Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Block Getty Images Starting today, U.S. customers of Cash App, a mobile payment service run by Block (formerly Square), will be able to automatically invest a por...