A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay park salaries and for infrastructure projects
Congo's Virunga — was broke. Then they built a hydropower plant in the park and started mining Bitcoin. This led to earnings of $150K a month and offset tourism income. https://www.technologyreview.co...
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”
do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/... Bari Weiss / @bar...
Tether's reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis
Tether reports hadn't disclosed that loans it issues are denominated and payable in the token — The SEC's Strategy for Enforcing Regulation on Crypto, Explained Tweets: @patio11 , @anthony , @bitboy...
Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, leaving them vulnerable during the downturn
Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn — The widespread losses caused by the cryptocurrency crash are even broader among black investors. Tweets: @davidcrespo , @patb...
CoinMarketCap: UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling as low as $0.60, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to support UST
Despite Loan From Bitcoin Reserves The Block : Crypto researcher unpacks why UST broke down and what happens next Brian Newar / Cointelegraph : Terra peg mechanism in doubt as UST crashes to $0.67 Rya...
A look at the evolution of crypto staking, from a useful tool to a quasi-Ponzi scheme, and how Yuga Labs is effectively paying people in ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin
Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token's equivalent of a board of directors I guess. Tweets: @cobie , @degenspartan , @cobie , @choffstein , @deezefi , ...
Users embrace “algospeak”, like saying “unalive” instead of dead, to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch
I have a love-hate relationship with being sick. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : I spoke with @TaylorLorenz about how attempting to “sanitize the internet” with automated content removal is a fools...
Algospeak, like saying unalive instead of dead, is becoming common on the internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok
“Algospeak” is becoming increasingly common across the Internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @kslane , @thedextriarchy , @t...
With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT privacy changes, Shopify should step up to provide substitute functionality and build its own advertising network
Tobi Lütke, who famously started Shopify when he realized that the software he built to run his snowboard shop was a much bigger opportunity … Tweets: @cramforce , @modestproposal1 , @nayutsitachitt ,...
Hackers defaced Twitch for a few hours this morning, replacing a number of background game images with photos of Jeff Bezos
Want to join? Log in or sign up in seconds. … - 130 comments- share- save- hide- report Mason Sansonia / Game Rant : People Are Trolling Twitch With Jeff Bezos Images Ethan Gach / Kotaku : Jeff Bezos...