Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has taken major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase to task over its open letter to employees published on Sept. 28. The letter, written by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, explained why the firm intends to avoid political and social distractions, and instead focus on its core mission of building an open financial system for the world. The new direction has met with strong support in some quarters and pushback from others. In a Twitter post to his 4.7 million followers, Dorsey argues that “Bitcoin (aka crypto) is direct activism against an unverifiable and exclusionary financial system.” He goes …

The modern world has become too small for comfort. The truth is that technological advancement is a double-edged sword, which has the potential to enhance human lives drastically at many levels and disrupt them in the blink of an eye, shaping things on a global level to an extent yet not seen. Even though we enjoy fast progress in crypto services and digital asset fields, constant security breaches and hacks pose a severe threat to market participants. The very essence of safety in the modern world is questioned. Therefore, it’s about time we clarify the complex topic of fungibility in …

The Oslo Freedom Forum, an event-based entity under the wing of the Human Rights Foundation, or HRF, digitally hosted Square CEO Jack Dorsey for a quick interview on YouTube. During the engagement, the CEO spoke positively of crypto's largest asset, Bitcoin (BTC). "The whole spirit of Bitcoin, for instance, is to provide a trusted system in a distrusted environment, which is the internet," Dorsey told host and HRF president Thor Halvorssen in an interview, published on Sept. 25. Dorsey's comment came in the midst of a discussion on security and methods for protection against nefarious parties. "I fundamentally believe that …

Mask Network has launched a trading widget allowing Twitter users to access market data and trade Ethereum-based crypto assets without leaving the platform. Powered by Uniswap and CoinMarketCap, the new Mask widget brings up a window featuring market data and an interface for trading on Uniswap when users hover the mouse pointer over crypto asset tickers in posts. In a Tweet thread announcing the new widget on September 24, Mask Network (formerly known as Maskbook) said it hopes to expand the service to other popular social media sites such as Facebook as well as other protocols in the decentralized finance …

One of Loom Network's former employees recently leaked information about the company's Kickstarter-funded game, Relentless (also called Zombie Battleground). The leak alleged that the project, and potentially the entire Loom Network, were no longer actively being developed. The former employee, who has not worked for the company in over a year, claimed that the issues largely stemmed from Loom's former CEO, Matthew Campbell. Campbell left Loom in Feb. 2020, and was replaced by a new CEO. "Dilanka accessed our Kickstarter account without authorization and sent out that rambling update," Vadim Macagon, the current CEO of Loom Network, told Cointelegraph on …

Last Friday night, crypto YouTuber Ivan on Tech messaged me on Twitter. Shortly into our conversation, he graciously offered me an investment opportunity in “Bitcoin trading/mining”, courtesy of a platform that he alleged was associated with Binance. In reality, however, I was being approached by an Ivan impersonator, peddling a crypto affinity scam. The platform "Ivan" advertised, called Cryptobinance, has no affiliation with the actual Binance exchange, a representative of the company told Cointelegraph. But I played along with the scammer to see what additional information could be elicited from him. I told him that I was impressed by his …

Back in 2013, Michael Saylor, CEO of business intelligence giant MicroStrategy, posted a tweet against Bitcoin (BTC), forecasting a grim future for the asset. Fast-forward to 2020, during which Saylor's company now holds a major bullish position in BTC. #Bitcoin days are numbered. It seems like just a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as online gambling. — Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) December 19, 2013 "I literally forgot I ever said that," Saylor told Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano during a podcast interview posted on Wednesday. Recent weeks have seen MicroStrategy turn bullish on Bitcoin, buying 21,454 …

Cypherium, a blockchain company involved in China's Blockchain Service Network initiative, has just launched its own branded Twitter emoji. The New York-based blockchain firm announced the news in a tweet Tuesday, adding that the new emoji comes in anticipation of Cypherium’s upcoming public token sale on Wednesday. With the new feature, all #Cypherium and #CPH tags on Twitter posts automatically get a Cypherium logo, similar to Bitcoin logos when tweeting “#Bitcoin” or “#BTC.” Cypherium’s new Twitter emoji comes in conjunction with the upcoming token sale. As previously announced, the firm is planning to sell a total of 300 million CPH …

The world of cryptocurrency moves at a whirlwind pace but Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey remains committed to its earliest lodestone, Bitcoin (BTC). In an interview with Reuters on Sept. 10, Dorsey, who also founded the mobile-payment platform Square, said he believes the coin’s potential still outshines later developments: “I think the internet warrants a [...] native currency and [...] Bitcoin is probably the best manifestation of that thus far. I can’t see that changing given all the people who want the same thing and build it for that potential.” Dorsey connected Bitcoin’s founding principles with the cooperative and decentralized ethos …

Editor’s note It is a cruel twist of fate that during the first hiatus week in Law Decoded’s existence, the SEC put out long-awaited updates to accredited investor qualifications. Upon reading the news, your faithful and ever-vigilant policy editor put down his phone and cast a wistful eye upon the sun’s reflection dancing in the midground of the Atlantic Ocean. Bracing himself with a deep quaff of Corona, he thought ‘Not today.’ Before the sorrow of not being the one to bring the news to you could overwhelm him, he grabbed a battered borrowed surfboard and made for the waves. …

Reddit-inspired social aggregation platform Discussions.app announced its expansion to the Telos network on Sept. 3. The first project to come out of the new collaboration will be a decentralized identity system, allowing users to record their accounts and contacts from Twitter and other social networks to the blockchain in the event of a block or ban. In the social-media age, users spend years growing networks and followers on various platforms, although this work can be destroyed by the sometimes arbitrary-seeming decisions of the networks. Discussions.app addresses this by allowing users to migrate across platforms without losing their valuable identities and …

"I’m begging my crypto friends to get involved in the stock market," Portnoy, also known as Davey Day Trader, said in a Sept. 2 tweet. "Bitcoin is stuck in the mud," he explained, adding: "Let me lead you. We will get back to crypto later. The time to strike is now! No time for weak hands! Make the move!" Included in the tweet, Portnoy posted a scene from the movie "Captain America: The First Avenger" — the scene in which the main character, Steve Rogers, outsmarts his military team, pulling the pin on a flag pole to reach the flag …