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Elon Musk is being thrown back into the crypto fray. This time, he’s at the center of several Twitter-based bitcoin scams, and he’s warning his followers to steer clear.Bitcoin Scams Just Don’t Leave Elon Musk AloneMusk has long been at the center of fraudulent activity, in which users of Twitter potentially try to doctor separate accounts to make them look like Musk’s. They utilize his picture and writing style, along with other elements to convince unsuspecting persons why they should send...

Jack Dorsey – the CEO of Square and Twitter – has debuted a new bitcoin emoji, and many people in the crypto community couldn’t be more excited.Jack Dorsey Gives Rise to the BTC EmojiDorsey has always offered praise to bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. In 2018, he stated that bitcoin was likely to become the world’s single currency in approximately ten years. In addition, he is about to embark on a three to six-month tour of Africa, in which he will work to bring bitcoin and the power of...

Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been introduced. This has generated lots of excitement within the crypto space. Twitter’s cryptocurrency community has been on fire as the Bitcoin symbol has been trending. However, it could have been rather expectable. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been known to be a Bitcoin fan for many years now. His recent tweet has got a lot of positive feedbacks.#bitcoin cc:@unicode— jack ??? (@jack) February 2, 2020The Bitcoin symbol was approved as a Unicode symbol in 2017....

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Engineers from Square Crypto want to build a product that will make LN integration easier for the wallet developers. Whether Lightning Network is a good scaling solution or not is defined by adoption rates. So far, it is used mostly by the exchanges and people directly supporting Bitcoin Core. However, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks that development (and adoption) must flow faster. His revolutionary solution is called Lightning Development Kit (LDK) and is a creation of Jack’s new company.It...

Byte, a 6-seconds video-sharing app created by the co-founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann, has been launched on Apple‘s App Store and Google Play. Interestingly, Byte is now among the most downloaded apps in both stores despite the flaws it has. As such, the app could potentially meet its aim to rival ByteDance‘sTikTok, a video sharing platform valued at $75 billion.Byte Launches on Apple and Google StoresOn January 24, 2020, Byte was launched on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.Reportedly, the...

Popular Bitcoin payment processor BitPay has sealed a partnership with fiat-to-crypto payment processor Simplex, enabling users to purchase Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies directly within the BitPay app using a credit card. They can also transfer funds, make purchases and send money to friends from a single dashboard.In providing BitPay with a fiat onramp to conduct and settle crypto transactions, Simplex has created a major on-ramp to the cryptoconomy. Over 30,000 merchants use BitPay,...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has decided to check if money can make people happy in this world. To test that, the Japanese billionaire gives away $9 million (or 1 billion yen) to his Twitter followers. 1000 randomly selected users who retweet the post below may become lucky.ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作...

Two days back, several crypto enthusiasts reported that YouTube has removed several crypto-related channels. The attack on these channels came without any prior warning as the video platform removed crypto videos suddenly.The crypto channel owners said that YouTube removed the videos flagging them as “harmful and dangerous”. Moreover, one of the channel owners said YouTube flagged his video as “sale of regulated goods”. It has turned out that YouTube has also not spared several informational...

Social network Commun, a fork of Steemit—a decentralized social media network that looks like Reddit, which is created on Web3 technologies base, announced it has successfully launched its mainnet for online communities.The platform is composed of Decentralized Autonomous Communities (DAC) and it is made to act as a web, Android, and iOS portal. Through this, the users can assemble different interest-based forums and groups to share, read, watch, rank, and discuss content with others.Commun...