Elliott Management Corp. – an activist investor owned by billionaire Paul Singer – has plans to shake up the management at Twitter. As reported by Bloomberg on Saturday, Elliott has taken a large stake in the social media messaging platform and, according to “people familiar with the matter,” has plans to remove Jack Dorsey as […]
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Libra has lost another Association member, but according to @nlw that’s likely low on its worries list, plus Square’s LN efforts & TON’s SEC support. News broke yesterday the Libra Association had seen its eighth high-profile defection, this time from the telecom giant Vodafone. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, @nlw argues Association membership is […]
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Cash App just dropped a bombshell new feature in a video announcement on Twitter, Cash App Investing. Users can now invest their cash in stocks using the app. That would be remarkable in itself, but it’s so much bigger than that. Square Payments isn’t merely joining the roster of other stock trading services like Robinhood […]
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Renegade John McAfee slammed Twitter on Monday for its callous disregard for Bitcoin scams after an impersonator was caught on Medium. | Source: AP Photo/Moises Castillo (i), REUTERS / Dado Ruvic (ii). Image Edited by CCN. Early on Monday, CCN brought to light the misadventures of an insidious scammer pretending to be none other than […]
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Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. “Left to their own devices, computer scientists would recreate the Soviet Union.” That line belongs […]
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Within a decade since its launch in 2009, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Square has transformed into a $29 billion digital payments giant and the go-to platform for users to send and receive money and buy Bitcoin. On February 3, Dorsey revealed that Square Cash (also known as Cash App), one of the most […]
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Square, a payment platform for merchants and individual users operated by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has surpassed Coinbase to become the most widely used iOS app to buy Bitcoin (BTC). The platform, called Cash App on Apple’s iOS store, also overtook YouTube to become the number one top free mobile application on the iOS store, […]
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