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Twitter and its new owner, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is currently under fire following a decision that will effectively make the social media platform a dubious source of information – or so detractors of the social media giant under new management says.
2022-11-7 13:06 | |
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A New Zealand radio host says that social media posts containing his likeness and promoting Bitcoin are an impersonation
2019-8-27 02:35 | |
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A new report by researchers at The Tie provides insight into which digital assets are being manipulated via bots and fake social media accounts.
2019-8-23 15:05 | |
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On August 9, Huawei launched it’s much talked about operating system, HarmonyOS. However, the company is not releasing any phones powered by that in 2019. Huawei‘s Senior Vice President, Vincent Yang, told media in New York there’s no phone running HarmonyOS in the launch pipeline.
2019-8-22 14:39 | |
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Facebook has had quite a run operating in the completely unregulated, wild world of social media, finally ending with a mea culpa that it needs government regulation in order to manage the massive social and democratic disorder it has created.
2019-8-19 18:00 | |
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Ron Paul, the muckraking former congressman from Texas, is stirring things up once again, this time taking aim at the new real-time digital payment system proposed last week by the U. S. Federal Reserve.
2019-8-15 21:30 | |
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The blockchain project that focuses on monetizing social media sites is launching a DAO in its coming hard fork upgrade.
2019-8-15 14:41 | |
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Bitcoin may sink to just above $8,000 in the short term in order to keep in line with its historical behavior, new crypto analysis suggests. BTC To Descend Below $9k? Currently circulating on social media are charts of CME Group’s Bitcoin futures performance which traditionally impacts on the Bitcoin price.
2019-8-15 15:00 | |
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Over the last two years, cryptocurrency scamming on social media has been prevalent. In January 2019, it was reported that crypto impersonation scams on Twitter raked in millions in cryptocurrencies from people pretending to be well known blockchain personalities.
2019-8-13 00:00 | |
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Negative interest rates have been making big headlines lately, as several countries and big banks are now experimenting with the unorthodox monetary policy. While typically viewed as a last-ditch effort to shock some life back into struggling economies, these policies are getting a shiny new spin thanks to mainstream media outlets promoting government talking points […] The post Normalizing Negative Interest: It’s Flabbergasting How Closely Media Parrots the Government appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-8-12 17:00 | |
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Search for “climate change” on YouTube and before long you’ll likely find a video that denies it exists. In fact, when it comes to shaping the online conversation around climate change, a new study suggests that deniers and conspiracy theorists might hold an edge over those believing in science.
2019-8-10 20:00 | |
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As per an all-new report released by S. Korean media outlet Cosun yesterday, local holding company SK C&C has announced its decision to create a new donations platform that will be built atop a Ripple blockchain fork.
2019-8-10 18:50 | |
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Researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabZ have identified a new remote-access trojan (RAT) called Saefko, which retrieves Chrome browser history in a search for cryptocurrency-related activity The RAT, written in .
2019-8-9 18:04 | |
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I’ve long espoused the belief that the entire tech press corps deserves to be quarantined on an isolated island in the South Pacific, where they don’t have phones or the internet. No exceptions.
2019-8-9 17:48 | |
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Bitcoin could drop dramatically in the short term before experiencing a historic rise to new heights, one of the cryptocurrency industry’s best-known researcher says. Bitcoin Mimicking Gold ‘Not Surprising’ Adding his weight to the current discussion on Bitcoin’s utility versus gold, Dan McArdle, co-founder of analytics firm Messari, said the cryptocurrency could copy the precious metal’s behavior in the coming years.
2019-8-8 12:00 | |
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According to a report released a Mexican media outlet recently, a new fintech law brought into effect by the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) could force a total of 201 blockchain related startups to cease their ongoing operations permanently.
2019-8-6 17:58 | |
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Bitcoin in fact accounts for a much larger proportion of the overall cryptocurrency market, a former Google and Facebook executive has claimed. Bitcoin Market Dominance Has Long Been over 60% Presenting new figures on social media August 6, Avichal Garg, who now runs cryptocurrency asset management firm Electric Capital, said standard methods for measuring Bitcoin’s dominance were flawed.
2019-8-6 13:00 | |
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Ripple keeps scoring good points both in the media and in the fan-base with XRP, a leading cryptocurrency in the fintech payments industry. Ripple and other numerous XRP lovers have maintained that XRP is truly a decentralized new generation cryptocurrency.
2019-8-3 18:39 | |
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Walmart, one of the world’s leading retail giants, may have plans to launch its own fiat-backed stablecoin. This development emerges after the social media giant, Facebook, warned that its cryptocurrency project, Libra, may be put on hold.
2019-8-2 10:33 | |
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden is back, and he is about to share more of his deepest and darkest secrets in a new tell-all memoir. Snowden, a former CIA employee, has written a new book aptly entitled “Permanent Record.
2019-8-2 20:45 | |
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The blockchain is here to bring us the future. S7 Airlines, a major aviation company that is a part of the Oneworld alliance, has recently revealed to the media that it was able to process $1 million USD in its new blockchain payment system during the month of July. This made July the best month […]
2019-8-1 00:13 | |
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As Justin Sun’s reputation continues to suffer from media fallout, the price of TRON and BitTorrent plummeted over the past week. This technical analysis will evaluate whether TRX and BTT are likely to keep falling or begin a new uptrend.
2019-7-31 10:52 | |
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On Monday, OB1, the development team who created the crypto-infused marketplace Openbazaar, launched a new platform called Haven. The application is a mobile version of the Openbazaar marketplace, but also includes social media, end-to-end encrypted messaging, and noncustodial wallet services for a variety of digital assets.
2019-7-30 22:30 | |
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Since Facebook’s announcement of its plan to launch a global currency in the form of a cryptocurrency called Libra, financial regulators across the world have spat fire and brimstone at the social media company.
2019-7-30 16:12 | |
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During Bitcoin’s meteoric rise to stardom and mainstream media back in 2017, another crypto asset also skyrocketed during this time. Due to the ICO boom, thousands of new ERC-20 altcoins were created on the Ethereum blockchain to take advantage of both the influx of capital from retail investors hoping to get rich and the coming.
2019-7-25 23:00 | |
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Today’s political climate is filled with different narratives and opinions, making it nothing short of confusing. The media believes they have had no role to play but are responsible for the elimination of this menace.
2019-7-24 19:00 | |
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Combating fake news, deepfakes, and misinformation is one of modern journalism’s biggest challenges. There have been numerous attempts to help readers recognize when a source shouldn’t be trusted.
2019-7-24 15:25 | |
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Online criminals are impersonating as the representative of Facebook to lure victims into buying the social media platform’s yet-to-release cryptocurrency, Libra. According to the Washington Post, scammers lately ran ads through a dozen on fake accounts, pages, and groups across Facebook and Instagram, presenting themselves as the official hubs of Libra.
2019-7-24 15:00 | |
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The AFOX platform will allow for the tokenization of media contracts and the selling of advertisements in the futures and options markets.
2019-7-23 16:00 | |
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Contrary to the popular media narrative, new research finds that Bitcoin and Litecoin prices are unimpacted by block reward halvings. Searching for cause and effect People crave cause and effect relationships.
2019-7-22 09:16 | |
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Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has told Spanish media that not only is he actively seeking a new club for Gareth Bale, but that he hopes the Welshman will be “gone by tomorrow”. Zidane’s comments bring an end to months of polite sparring between the club and Bale’s agent, Jonathan Barnett.
2019-7-22 16:33 | |
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has made his stance on Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra very clear, follow the rules. On July 17, Garlinghouse tweeted that the social media giant's “goal to create a new fiat currency” should be held to the same standard as any other regulated financial institutions.
2019-7-19 19:30 | |
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It appears social media sensation TikTok is taking a leaf out of the books of Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. The platform is currently testing a Discover tab to make it easier for users to, well, discover new engaging content.
2019-7-18 16:28 | |
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In an effort to remove the pressure of posting content, Instagram is doubling down on its experiment to hide certain social media metrics in select regions. In an announcement on Twitter, the company said it is running a test that “hides the total number of likes and video views for some people” in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand.
2019-7-18 10:53 | |
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Crypto’s mainstream adoption has not only unleashed a new paradigm for global finance, but also raised a fresh set of concerns for its sub-ecosystem, crypto-mining. In order to uncover the truth behind the impact of digital mining, Peter McCormack interviewed University of Cambridge’s Michel Rauchs to discuss the institution’s research on Bitcoin’s power consumption and carbon […] The post Mainstream media has misled vulnerable users on the environmental impact of crypto-mining appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-18 05:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Former EXMO Analyst Pavel Lerner About His Kidnapping, Security, and New JobAfter keeping silence for more than a year after kidnapping, former EXMO analyst Pavel Lerner has given his first interview to the media.
2019-7-17 18:28 | |
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FaceApp appears to be having a viral moment, again. The two year old AI-driven photo editor from Russian company Wireless Lab, which rose in popularity for its realistic facial transformations in photos, is back in the spotlight.
2019-7-17 11:46 | |
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Welcome to PRIME CHEAP, our series about things that are good, cheap, and part of Amazon’s Prime Day sales. Hey, we gotta eat too. Media streamers are great. That’s all there is to it. Of all the recent(-ish) advances in consumer technology, they have to be one of my favorite.
2019-7-15 11:05 | |
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Media Release Triesen, 15 July 2019 CROWDLITOKEN AG pioneers and starts distribution of a digital bond – European retail investors benefit as well For the first time in Europe, the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) has approved the offering prospectus for a tokenized real estate investment product.
2019-7-15 09:32 | |
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The allure of Facebook’s Libra project has the Winklevoss twins willing to mend their fractured relationship with Mark Zuckerberg. Let’s be Friends Again Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, both co-founders of the New York-based Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, appear to be offering an olive branch to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
2019-7-11 18:30 | |
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Contrary to the beliefs of many crypto critics, Facebook’s Libra will not be a Bitcoin killer. In fact the new digital coin from billionaire Zuckerberg et al may not even be available to some of the world’s largest markets.
2019-7-10 12:00 | |
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A US federal court has ruled today that President Donald Trump can’t block his haters on Twitter. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit situated in New York said that since Trump uses the social network to communicate matters related to government affairs, he can’t bar some Americans from accessing that information.
2019-7-10 07:20 | |
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Instagram will soon trial a new AI-powered system for dealing with online bullying and abuse. Currently, the Facebook-owned social media platform uses a conventional human-dependent system for dealing with this issue that relies on users flagging and reporting comments as spam, abuse, or hate speech.
2019-7-9 05:30 | |
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Twitter users from the US talking about Bitcoin by far dominate the discourse surrounding crypto assets on the popular social media platform. A new report states that the UK comes a close second across each of the five top digital currencies.
2019-7-9 02:00 | |
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For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. There’s no questioning that sex workers face judgement and stigma, as well as blatant, systematic discrimination.
2019-7-8 16:59 | |
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Facebook’s new digital currency Libra has received an early jolt from the Indian government. The authorities in Asia’s third-largest economy are no more keen on the social media giant’s project than any cryptocurrency that came before it.
2019-7-8 15:48 | |
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As per an all new statement issued by the Iranian Assistant Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply, Saeed Zarandi, the US government is looking to stop the middle-eastern powerhouse from implementing its cryptocurrency mining plans.
2019-7-8 20:37 | |
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Days after Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini debated BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes in Taipei, Taiwan, the foul-mouthed Bitcoin critic is still not letting go over how everything panned out.
2019-7-7 18:41 | |
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Electrum Wallet, a popular wallet service, has recently announced to the world that it would start to support the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The founder of the company, Thomas Voegtlin, talked to the crypto media during a blockchain in Odessa, Ukraine, and affirmed that the launch of this new feature is very close now. According to […]
2019-7-6 01:14 | |
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Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy refutes claims that the market maker has plans to sue Binance after the losses incurred during the Oct. 11 market crash. In a recent post shared on Nov. 4, the platform’s chief executive officer and founder…
Thumzup is deploying Dogecoin as a strategic rail, aiming to bypass traditional banking bottlenecks and facilitate near-instant cross-border payments to a burgeoning global network of content creators.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has accidentally sparked a token rally after Giggle Academy received $11 million worth of BNB donations from the crypto community. On Oct. 10, Changpeng Zhao announced that as much as $11 million has been donated to…
Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee say retail and institutional investors have different ways of approaching meme coins, with virality being a core value that drives the market. At the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Oct.
X has suspended the account of R2 Protocol, a decentralized yield platform for real-world assets, just after the platform’s mainnet launch. The R2 Protocol launched its mainnet on Ethereum, going live on Sept. 26 as the onchain yield platform looked…
Crypto scammers and other malicious actors ran a bribery network that targeted employees of the social media network X, with the goal of having suspended accounts reinstated, X said Friday. X noted that it was taking strong action after exposing…
Elon Musk files a motion to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil lawsuit which alleged that he waited too long before revealing his large purchase of Twitter shares. In a recent filing to a federal court judge, Elon…