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Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking system.
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“Cybersecurity expert” and noted crypto pumper John McAfee accidentally revealed his Social Security Number this morning, tweeting out some documents that contained the information. CCN has determined it would be unethical to post a screenshot since the anti-virus pioneer has already deleted the tweets, but we retained the link. McAfee later tweeted the same documents, […]
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A few hours ago, the internet’s top social networks suffered a crash that kept users from sharing photos, videos, and similar files. Almost simultaneously, Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram suffered the same malfunction causing, as expected, a big nuisance among netizens, who rushed to position the tags #Instagramdown, #facebookdown, and #whatsappdown on Twitter. This is Twitter […]
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Cryptocurrency advocates have been discussing a new social media platform designed by one of Bitcoin’s earliest developers Martti Malmi, otherwise known as Sirius. The project he designed, called Iris, is a social networking application that stores and indexes everything on the user’s devices and connects directly with peers rather than using centralized and privacy-invasive algorithms.
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Block.one, the startup behind the EOS (EOS) blockchain ecosystem, unveiled a new social networking platform over the weekend called Voice that is designed to upend the current centralized standard that includes Facebook and Twitter. Welcome to the application layer of #EOShttps://t.co/ixQp1vRIbb — Brendan Blumer (@BrendanBlumer) June 2, 2019 According to the announcement, which was significantly hyped up […]
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StockTwits, a social network that connects equity, crypto and commodity investors, announced this week that it is planning to launch Trade App, a social brokerage platform that will compete with industry-leader Robinhood. Introducing Trade App, a free social trading experience, coming soon, from StockTwits: https://t.co/Ppg3O3eIbv pic.twitter.com/kB9GJKY2ah — StockTwits (@StockTwits) April 18, 2019 According to the […]
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Social investment and trading platform Etoro has announced the launch of its platform and cryptocurrency wallet in 30 U.S. states and two territories. In America, users will have access to invest in BTC and 12 other cryptocurrencies at launch, with more to be added throughout the year. The Etoro wallet will initially support bitcoin core, bitcoin cash, ethereum, litecoin, ripple and stellar.
Over the last few years, infighting and different visions has led to significant divides within the Bitcoin community, weakening the network effects no matter which chain you support. With all the arguments about scaling, privacy, consensus changes and the various forks, it is amazing that these public networks are still thriving. Nevertheless, the people who maintain the various software protocols that communicate with Bitcoin and the network’s many participants have lives that are finite — which means we don’t know if future generations will change the social contract Satoshi Nakamoto created years ago.
A little over a week ago, Lumeos, a social survey blockchain platform that allows users to post and answer polls for token rewards, announced that it is officially live on the EOS (EOS) mainnet. We’ve been busy! Check out our latest updates from VC funding to #EOS mainnet launch and a sneak peak on what’s […]
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By CCN.com: Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to sue Facebook and Twitter for not complying with laws pertaining to the storage of Russian’s citizen’s data. There is speculation this could lead to Facebook and Twitter being banned in Russia. Such a ban might have a greater impact on Twitter than it would on Facebook. Russia
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By CCN.com: Yesterday, CCN published an article detailing Tesla’s increasingly confounding financial maneuvers. Reader Frederick Macarthur commented: Tesla stock and Elon Musk have one thing in common – they’re both manic depressive. It’s true. Tesla Stock Has Been Volatile in Recent Years Last year, Claudia Assis at MarketWatch even reported: Volatility surrounding Tesla Inc. is
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Over the last two years, as cryptocurrencies gained mainstream attention, scammers have become far more prevalent. One particular social media scam that can be found on prominent websites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is the impersonation of well-known crypto industry executives and blockchain luminaries. Unfortunately even a verified account means nothing these days and these giant corporations have allowed fraudulent acts to flourish giving criminals the opportunity to rake in millions.
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Last year the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community welcomed a BCH-based social media network called Memo.cash. Since then Memo has gathered a lot of traction with hundreds of profiles and thousands of onchain updates and conversations posted to the BCH chain.
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Gab, a social network dedicated to preserving freedom of speech, has announced that its store now accepts BTC directly after banks and payment processors denied the platform service. “Literally no one can no-platform our new crypto shop,” Gab announced. The platform integrated Btcpay Server after it was refused service by Coinbase and Bitpay.
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Social network platform Gab announced on Thursday that its integration of Btcpay Server has been completed. Its store now accepts payments in BTC and LTC.
Telecom giant AT&T has filed a blockchain-oriented patent application to “map” social media histories. Titled “Blockchain-Based Social Media History Maps,” and published on Thursday, it describes a system of tracking social media history “on behalf of” subscribers. Presumably, such a service would be most useful to employers and prospective employers. AT&T Eyes Blockchain for Social
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
Zhang earned her bachelor’s degree in art history in 2015 and spent the next few years carving out a career for herself in the field of art management. After working for several museums around the world, including Pearl Lam Galleries, Seattle Art Museum and Vermillion Art Collections in Hong Kong, she ended up at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she served as a research manager and board member.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is actively cracking down on crypto initial coin offering (ICO) projects and a top official said earlier this year that dozens of cases are pending. The next wave of enforcement by the SEC, stimulated by its recent settlement with professional boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled, is
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All the talk about stablecoins has people re-examining the actual value of crypto tokens and the associated markets. The discussion is particularly relevant during a bear assault on the whole crypto market, like the one we’re seeing now. Frequent Bitcoin commentator and Cornell professor Emin Gün Sirer believes there is a distinct difference between a … Continued
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Gab, a social network created as an alternative to Twitter, has turned to BitPay, a blockchain payment processor that supports Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), after being banned by PayPal (PYPL) and Coinbase due to the continued proliferation of hate speech found on the platform. In a recent tweet, Gab claims that multiple banks that […]
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