Alexis Ohanian, a millionaire tech entreprenuer and co-founder of online social platform Reddit, recently publicized plans for his personal fight against racism. These include his desire to see a member of the black community replace him at his current board position. "I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate," Ohanian said in a June 5 tweet. The United States shows unrest Over the past week and a half, cities across the U.S. have seen protests, with some cities also experiencing rioting and looting in response to the …

Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin, and Gemini exchange founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, expressed their opinions on recent efforts at social media censorship. "I've talked before about the rise of corporations regulating governments but here we have Twitter soft-censoring the U.S. president on the grounds of incitement of violence," Buterin said in a May 29 tweet referencing recent Twitter posts from U.S. President Donald Trump. "This is a major escalation and could be a new chapter in relations between corporations and states," Buterin added. A tangled mess of tweets, executive orders, and events Expectations yesterday saw Trump signing an executive order …

A tweet from 2010 may provide evidence that Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In a recent Cointelegrpah interview, Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010, said that Satoshi had no familiarity with the Mac ecosystem: “He didn't have a Macintosh. He didn't know how to build it for Mac.” Consequently, Satoshi asked him to develop a MacOS version of the Bitcoin client, which he eventually did. Both Finney & his wife owned a Mac in 2010 However, a 2010 tweet from Hal Finney tells us that both Finney and his wife owned a Mac: Hal Finney …

Those in the know expect President Trump to sign a fresh executive order today, imposing greater accountability on social media providers. The order draft, labeled at press time as "Preventing Online Censorship," brings further clarity to social media industry boundaries, ABC News said on May 28. "This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!" Trump tweeted on the morning of May 28. The order follows Twitter fact checking efforts Social media powerhouse Twitter recently flagged certain tweets with a fact-check tag. The platform flagged some of Trump's posts about voting and ballots, pinning a noted under the …

A new kind of cryptocurrency tipbot allows users to pay others to answer their questions on social media, providing a new tool to pool data in the ecosystem. Liser Lee of CCTip told Cointelegraph that the system can help drive engagement or generate expert commentary. It lets users create a Twitter poll and automatically pay anyone who shares it with cryptocurrency, helping a poll gain more exposure and answers. The company is also considering a system pays the poll respondents instead. Other than Twitter, CCTip will also work on Telegram, Discord, WeChat and on Reddit as well. It supports 200 …

Bitcoin (BTC) the most mentions on Twitter may seem logical — but the reason behind it may be more calculated than many imagined. According to the latest data, Bitcoin’s popularity on Twitter by the number of tweets is not only the highest of all the cryptocurrencies — it is proportional to market cap. BTC clings to 65% dominance For May 26, Bitcoin tweets numbered 26,778. Tweets including six others — Ether (ETH), XRP, Litecoin (LTC), Tezos (XTZ), EOS (EOS) and Chainlink (LINK) — came to roughly another 13,000. Out of a total of around 39,000 tweets, Bitcoin’s share is therefore …

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment platform Square, is donating $5 million to Humanity Forward, a group launched by crypto-friendly former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, as part of both entrepreneurs’ efforts to establish universal basic income (UBI) for Americans. Dorsey announced the plan on Yang’s podcast, Yang Speaks, on May 21, while discussing the future of technology. Dorsey told Yang that UBI was “long overdue,” saying “the only way that we can change policy is by experimenting and showing case studies of why this works.” In a statement to Rolling Stone, Yang said Humanity Forward would use Dorsey’s donation …

Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, recently asked for an explanation of Bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter, bringing an onslaught of commentary from the crypto community. "This started as a joke, but now I’m afraid I’ll never be able to log in to Twitter again without someone getting angry I don’t own Bitcoin," Rowling tweeted on May 15, adding: One day you’ll see a wizened old woman in the street, trying to trade a Harry Potter book for a potato. Be kind. She did try to understand." Nearly the entire crypto community showed up for comment Responding to a May 15 tweet …

In the midst of rising prices, Adam Singer showed his disapproval of the entire crypto space, describing it as cultlike. "Bitcoin went from a creative economic experiment to cult of over exposed, get rich quick neo goldbugs rooting for the end of the world," Singer tweeted on Thursday. Everyone is "watching the same chart 24/7 and taking online victory laps that would make Jordan Belfort blush every time their only holding has a >5% move," Singer added, referring to the infamous "Wolf of Wall Street" scam artist. Bitcoin prices on the move going into the halving With its block reward …

Personal data breaches on social media platforms are nothing new. Global giants like Facebook are known for their privacy issues. While global Internet users continue to rely on classic social media like Facebook and YouTube, industry players keep building privacy-focused alternatives based on blockchains like IOTA. Society2 is a new decentralized social media, or DeSM, project that aims to let users regain control of their data and enable IOTA node owners to run their own social media sites or apps. Officially announcing the initiative on May 5, Society2 outlined that there has been no mainstream adoption of decentralized social media …

Warren Buffett, the fifth-richest person on the planet, has repeatedly expressed his unfriendly stance toward Bitcoin (BTC). One of the most successful investors of all time, Buffett might be killing his reputation by being that harsh to BTC, according to one industry player. Max Keiser, famous American broadcaster and known Bitcoin bull, is confident that Buffett’s highly critical stance on Bitcoin is no good for the legendary investor. Keiser argues that it’s time to leave Buffett in the past On May 2, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported a $50 billion Q1 loss, with Buffett admitting a major investor mistake. Keiser subsequently …

As part of a recent series of nonsensical tweets, Tesla's eccentric founder, Elon Musk, expressed plans to sell all his physical possessions. Are his Bitcoin (BTC) holdings included in the fire sale? "I am selling almost all physical possessions," Musk tweeted on May 1. "Will own no house," he noted, adding: "Just one stipulation on sale: I own Gene Wilder’s old house. It cannot be torn down or lose any its soul." Musk rattled off strange posts to kick off May Musk followed up his fire sale tweet with a comment describing Tesla's stock price as too high, as well …