Twitter plans to move its platform onto the blockchain. The social media giant is putting together a team to develop an open, decentralized standard for social media, with Twitter as one of its first clients, announced CEO Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey, the idiosyncratic CEO of Twitter and Square, announced that Twitter is funding a five-person...Read More
Twitter and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, has just announced that Twitter is funding a small independent team to develop an open and decentralised social media standard. The ultimate aim is for Twitter to then be a client of this new standard. Dorsey Brave New World Dorsey described the plans in a tweet thread earlier this morning, and...Read More
Customers who use the Stripe payment platform will now enjoy business loans up to $20,000 through the company’s recently unveiled Stripe Capital. The company is looking to provide businesses with better access to funds. Stripe, one of the world’s biggest payment services firms, has now announced its decision to get involved with business finance through...Read More
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey says the world would be better served by an autonomous open-source currency like bitcoin rather than centralized projects owned by companies. No Chance of a ‘Twitter Cryptocurrency’ Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Twitter founder declared that he had no intention of creating a Twitter cryptocurrency. Commenting on the matter, Dorsey...Read More
Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey says he has not even considered creating a Libra-like native currency for his own social media platform. Instead, the entrepreneur believes Bitcoin to be much more suited for use as a “currency for the internet” than anything else available or in the works to date.Dorsey claims that Bitcoin’s resilience,...Read More
Bitcoin’s the best bet for a cryptocurrency, says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. | Source: Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP As Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg faces a firestorm of criticism for his Libra project, another prominent social media billionaire is staying on the side-lines. Jack Dorsey made it very clear in an interview with the Sydney...Read More
Yesterday, the CEO of Twitter and Square Inc., and staunch Bitcoin and crypto supporter, Jack Dorsey, had his personal Twitter account hacked by the way of a SIM-swap attack and SMS-based backdoor.The hack demonstrates that even the CEO can have his own company’s highly-valuable personal account compromised, and is a painful reminder that if it...Read More
Twitter and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, had his personal Twitter account hacked this week. Whilst in control of the account, the hackers posted a bizarre stream of messages including racial slurs and a bomb threat. Dorsey has been very vocal in his support for Bitcoin, so what impact could this have? What Does A Twitter Hack...Read More
When Bitcoin’s most controversial Twitter account suddenly had an identity crisis, the conspiracy theories began to come out of the woodwork. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Bitcoin maximalists feuding with altcoiners is not headline-worthy material. However, when a Twitter handle that boasts 1 million followers and previously pumped Bitcoin Cash suddenly deletes old anti-Bitcoin...Read More
Early on Monday, CCN.com brought to light the misadventures of an insidious scammer pretending to be none other than the Bitcoin renegade himself, John McAfee. McAfee: Twitter Never Even Responds to My Crypto Scam Reports After we tipped off McAfee and his wife, Janice, to the fraudulent article in question, John responded by sharing his...Read More
