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Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has urged his followers to donate Bitcoin to support the protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Earlier today, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, showed his support for the ongoing #EndSars protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Dorsey, a Bitcoin proponent, encouraged Bitcoiners to make BTC donations towards the fight against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the largest black nation. #EndSars: The Genesis SARS is a unit of the...

Yesterday, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commissions (CFTC) filed charges against BitMEX and its executive team, pressing both criminal and civil allegations. Its CTO, Samuel Reed, was arrested. The platform’s CEO, Arthur Hayes, and its cofounder Ben Melo are still under the radar.The news spread quickly throughout Crypto Twitter, and of course, the community reacted with mixed but well-argued opinions.The Bitmex Case is BadAs soon as the news came out, the nervousness of the...

Twitter-CEO Jack Dorsey hat jüngst über Cybersicherheit geredet. Dabei sprach er darüber, dass die Bitcoin ein Positivbeispiel hierfür sei. Die Blockhain-Technologie ist längst nicht mehr nur auf die Anwendung im Finanzwesen beschränkt. Jack Dorsey, der CEO von Twitter, unterstreicht dies, indem er es in Betracht zieht, Blockchain für den bekannten Kurznachrichtendienst zu nutzen. Am 25. September hat es Jack Dorsey auf dem Virtual Oslo...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has openly criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong following a recent controversial post urging employees of the exchange to steer clear from political discussions. Dorsey, however, believes that the whole purpose of the cryptocurrency field is social activism.Armstrong Highlights The Coinbase Core MissionIn a post shared over the weekend, Armstrong outlined that 2020 has already been a challenging year. The upcoming US Presidential elections also raise massive...

Jack Dorsey is back in the news, and once again, he’s pushing the power of both bitcoin and the blockchain technology that supports it.Jack Dorsey Is Still Pushing BitcoinAs the CEO of Square and Twitter, Dorsey has always been there to push the bitcoin agenda he holds so dear. He has stated in the past that within the next ten years, he can easily see bitcoin becoming the world’s only currency. He has also stated that it’s the best internet currency, and that he would at some point travel to...

Twitter says it is ramping up security following the major hack that occurred several months ago.Twitter Says Its Fixing Up Its SecurityWhile not much money was stolen, it was scary to see the accounts of such high-profile people get overtaken by a small string of hackers. Some of the people involved in the scam were Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame, Elon Musk (CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla), former president Barack Obama and Microsoft mogul Bill Gates.To be fair, these figures themselves were not...

Twitter continues to experience technical issues trying to protect high-profile accounts as the social media giant has confirmed another hack. This time, it involved India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Upon taking over the account, the perpetrators had requested donations in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Twitter Hacks – The Indian EditionLess than two months ago, the social media giant experienced a significant security breach. The hackers, which turned out to be led by a teenager,...

Crypto crime is relatively common within the space, and the latest instigator – a 35-year-old woman in the United Kingdom who remains unnamed at the time of writing – has been caught with roughly 115,000 pounds of illegally garnered bitcoin in her possession.Bitcoin Is at the Center of a Lot of CrimeThe news comes by way of the Met’s Proactive Money Laundering Team. Detectives first opened an investigation into the woman’s financial dealings after she applied for several “bounce back loans,”...

It looks like crypto scams are far more prominent than we originally thought, according to a new research paper.Crypto Scams Are Pretty CommonAnalysts at the University of Technology in Sydney and the Stockholm School of Economics have announced that crypto scams are taking place everywhere and all the time. We just need to know where to look. Ultimately, these scams are accumulating millions of dollars in dirty money virtually every month, and not enough is being done to keep people safe.The...

Following the latest developments and price movements from Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has seen its weighted social sentiment turn significantly more positive to reach a fresh all-time high. Twitter Loves Ethereum According to data from the popular analytics company Santiment, Ethereum’s so-called weighted social sentiment has been increasing in positivity lately. Essentially, this metric takes into consideration the positive and the negative...