Twitter says it has been working on an edit tweet option since last year and will start testing the feature in Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months
now that everyone is asking... yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didn't get the idea from a poll 😉 we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue La...
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF gained nearly 5% in its NYSE debut, with ~$981M in trading volume, making it the second most traded ETF debut ever per FactSet
Michael Wursthorn / Wall Street Journal :
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF is akin to a commodities fund and will have the same risks that investors have been dealing with in the commodities markets
Jared Dillian / Bloomberg :
Coinbase says SEC threatened to sue over its yet-to-be-launched Lend program, following discussions with the regulator that have lasted almost six months
Frank Chaparro / The Block :
While SEC rules are hazy, Coinbase's Lend product likely does constitute a security; to avoid SEC oversight, Coinbase would need to be regulated like a bank
Is lending your Bitcoins a security? — Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” …
Bitcoin fell 30% to just over $30K on Wednesday, recovering partially to $38K; Ether, Dogecoin, and others also plunged
Galaxy Digital's Novogratz on bitcoin's plunge: These are setbacks for investor base — Bitcoin plunged to near $30,000 at one point on Wednesday morning …
Elon Musk is either trading on his unique ability to move the price of Bitcoin and Dogecoin, or just trolling, and both scenarios are bizarre and incredible
As Elon Musk reverses his Bitcoin sentiment … Matthew Fox / Insider : Ethan Allen stock is soaring as traders confuse its ticker with the identical one for ether Scott Chipolina / ...
As r/WallStreetBets causes GameStop, BlackBerry, and others to surge, online trading platforms like Robinhood and WeBull have rapidly climbed US app store ranks
- The flurry of Redditors taking on Wall Street appears to have resulted in a usage boom for share trading apps.
r/WallStreetBets was made private by moderators for about an hour, but is back online; Discord banned r/WallStreetBets' server, claiming hate speech violations
It went dark for nearly an hour — The r/WallStreetBets subreddit's own moderators made it private for a little less than an hour …
A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop's stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment
Over the past several weeks, GameStop stock has traded … Philip Stafford / Financial Times : GameStop and BlackBerry shares soar on amateur traders' fervour YouTube : The Big Short...
The hack on Twitter provides more ammunition for critics who question Twitter's engineering prowess, poor management practices, and anemic financial performance
Tae Kim / Bloomberg : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @bobonmarkets , and @bopinion Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : I doubt Elliott would be a responsible steward of this platform. ...
The Twitter attack may have been perpetrated by Joseph James Connor, a 21-year-old English SIM swapper linked to a group that hijacked @jack's account last year
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures …
Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation
Prosecutors accuse him of inflating German fintech company's balance sheet and revenues — Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion …
The pandemic is creating opportunities for Amazon rivals, from upstart Shopify to retailers such as Target and Costco
Tae Kim / Bloomberg :
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY
and the internet surveillance economy in general — that ending privacy-violating settings dented Twitter's ad sales? https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Tim O'Bri...
Twitter says some users will start seeing more ads after it changed its historical approach of showing fewer ads to users with high follower counts
- Twitter's third-quarter earnings were marred by issues in a product that advertisers use to market mobile apps.
Comparing Hong Kong with Kashmir shows that manipulating social media by flooding it with propaganda may better tackle unrest than shutting down the internet
Bhaskar Chakravorti / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bopinion , @bopinion , and @business Tweets: @bopinion : In 2018 there were 195 internet shutdowns across 25 countries, and this year is...
Comparing Hong Kong with Kashmir shows that manipulating social media by flooding it with propaganda may better tackle unrest than shutting down the internet
Bhaskar Chakravorti / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bopinion , @bopinion , and @business Tweets: @bopinion : In 2018 there were 195 internet shutdowns across 25 countries, and this year is...
France is rolling out a nationwide digital identity enrollment app with facial recognition in November, despite concerns from its data regulator
- Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November — Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised
A look at the life of Patrick Byrne, whose interests in blockchain and transforming Africa, among others, often overshadowed those of Overstock.com shareholders
Lauren Debter / Forbes :