Tagged: twitter

November 16, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Paradigm, a firm investing in cryptocurrency-based startups, said this week it has raised $2.5 billion from investors to create the largest-ever cryptocurrency investment fund. If true, it would kick Andreessen Horowitz out of the top spot. The sum also surpasses the initial $1.5 billion target…. Read More

July 1, 2021 @ 6:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global cryptocurrency interest continues to grow, and is being propelled by discussion of mainstream companies, research from GlobalData suggests. The company monitored Twitter conversations about “crypto” and found influencer conversations have risen 200 percent during 2021’s first half. PayPal was most mentioned in influencer conversations… Read More

June 4, 2021 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jack Dorsey, CEO of both Square (NYSE:SQ) and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), has tweeted out that a digital wallet may be forthcoming from Square. The tweet was shared in advance of a presentation at the enormous Bitcoin conference taking place in Miami.   Square is considering making… Read More

March 17, 2021 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A teenager who’s responsible for taking over many high-profile Twitter accounts, as part of a huge Bitcoin scam last year, has now agreed to serve 3 years in prison in a plea deal. Graham Clark, 18, has confirmed that he’ll be pleading guilty to State… Read More

March 6, 2021 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rob Walker, a Senior writer at Marker on the intersections of design, consumer culture, branding and business, is asking whether Jack Dorsey is playing Jay-Z, or is the billionaire hip-hop artist and entrepreneur playing the Twitter and Square CEO? Walker, a longtime NYT contributor and… Read More

March 4, 2021 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Square (NYSE:SQ), a top publicly traded Fintech, has acquired a majority stake in the music streaming service TIDAL. Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the investment via Twitter, another company where he is CEO and founder.   Square is acquiring a majority ownership stake… Read More

July 31, 2020 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

  A 17-year-old teenager in Hillsborough County, Florida has been arrested in relation to the high profile Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that recently occurred. Hillsborough county where Tampa is located.   BREAKING: Hillsborough State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL announces arrest of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark in “Bit-Con” hack… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Twitter hack that saw 130 different accounts compromised and embarrassed the popular social media company is still be sorted out. It has been reported that the FBI is involved in the investigation of how exactly the perpetrators gained access to prominent Twitter accounts… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx claims that it’s now among the first cryptocurrency exchanges to have partnered with the Web3 Foundation, an organization established to nurture and steward technologies in the fields of decentralized web software protocols. The OKEx team also confirmed that they’ve now listed… Read More

July 17, 2020 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Twitter continues to dig through the rubble following the epic Twitter hack that saw approximately 130 high profile Twitter accounts hijacked with Tweets distributing a Bitcoin trap for the unsuspecting. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we investigate this incident. We’ll continue… Read More

July 16, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

The dust is yet to settle in the Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) hack that saw multiple high profile accounts hacked. Twitter continues to dig through the breech and earlier today, Twitter provided some additional insight as to how the individual was able to exploit the platform. Tough… Read More

July 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) was hacked today and the perps used prominent accounts to pilfer crypto, according to multiple reports. Apple, Uber, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Warren Buffet, and yes, even Kanye West more were said to be targets of the scam. The Tweets were… Read More

December 16, 2019 @ 10:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, announced on Twitter December 11th that the company, “is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media…We’re calling this team @bluesky.” “The goal,” said Dorsey,… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 9:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jack Dorsey has reiterated his support for Bitcoin in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, and says Twitter has no plans to create a private digital currency for that network. “I think open Internet standards serve every person better than ones controlled or started… Read More

June 16, 2019 @ 2:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Jack Dorsey, self-taught programmer and co-founder of Twitter and Square gave two interviews this week in which he talked up Square’s recent efforts to coalesce an in-house team of developers that will contribute to coding Bitcoin and possibly other cryptocurrencies. Square began by providing credit… Read More

February 28, 2019 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a motion for an order to show cause, on February 25, why Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, should not be held in contempt for violating the terms of the Court’s October 16, 2018, Final Judgment. The agreed… Read More

October 14, 2018 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dr. Nouriel Roubini, also known as “Dr. Doom,” has extended his crypto / blockchain bashing on Twitter during the past few days. Following a widely viewed Senate Banking Committee hearing where Dr. Roubini submitted a 37 page document that eviscerated the concept of cryptocurrency calling… Read More

August 13, 2018 @ 2:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A well-known Quebec-based “cryptoevangelist” and YouTuber called Adam Guerbuez claims that an “ethereum giveaway” scammer soliciting via a bot on Twitter has claimed he or she is skimming up to $100 ooo in Ether (ETH) from “mooches” (targets) per day. The story is related in… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 12:56 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at digital security firm Duo Security claim to have uncovered, “a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam botnet consisting of at least 15,000 bots,” broadcasting cryptocurrency giveaway and other scams on Twitter. The company made the claim in a paper released yesterday, two days ahead of a… Read More

May 3, 2018 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Small Business Policy held a Twitter chat on Tuesday entitled #SECcrowdfundchat. The lightly attended discussion was scheduled to help inform small businesses as to how they may legally raise growth capital. In the US today,… Read More