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A security researcher was able to use a bug in the Twitter Android app to identify millions of Twitter users, connecting their phone numbers to their Twitter IDs. The exploit could expose failures in the company's two-factor authentication system and give other security developers pause.According to a TechCrunch report, the
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Two Canadian men who defrauded a Bitcoin (BTC) investor out of $140,000 by impersonating exchange HitBTC may serve two years in prison.According to court records on Dec. 16, brothers Jagroop Singh Khatkar and Karanjit Singh Khatkhar pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud over a scam
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The new team would follow a model similar to Square Crypto, a bitcoin-focused entity separate from Dorsey's fintech unicorn Square. Likewise, the new Twitter entity would focus on open standards for decentralized processes across social platforms, rather than proprietary structures. Although Dorsey didn’t directly associate the disparate efforts, he hinted
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Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter and payments operator Squre, has revealed that Twitter is funding a dedicated team to develop a decentralized standard for social media.In a series of tweets on Dec. 11, Dorsey set forth a number of challenges social media networks face in their
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CMT Digital’s head of trading, Brad Koeppen, agreed. Cryptocurrency markets are almost uniquely vulnerable to gossip and sentiment swings, he said. The correlation between public personas and trading activity isn't always apparent from public exchange data, especially for tokens with identifiable figureheads like Binance’s BNB (CZ) and Tron’s TRX (founder
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Bitcoin (BTC) will see its future “defined” by Africa, one of its best-known proponents has predicted after completing a tour of the continent. In a tweet on Nov. 27, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey said that he would return to Africa in 2020 after spending time traveling in Nigeria
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Binance’s official account on China’s major microblogging website Weibo has been blocked. The account of the major global exchange was blocked on Nov. 13, purportedly due to violations of the site’s policies, Taiwan-based publication The China Times reported on Nov. 15.At press time, Binance’s Weibo page is blocked, displaying
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Hackers took over the Twitter account of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX after the previously reported leak of customer email details on Nov. 1. The exchange claims that, although its Twitter account was hacked, all user funds are safe.“Hackers” tease individual IDs and take over BitMEX TwitterSince the update was published,
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Although Twitter’s boss and founder, Jack Dorsey, has strongly resisted the temptation to borrow a leaf from Mark Zuckerberg and run its own native digital coin, he has never relinquished his stand on virtual currencies.Putting his money where his mouth is, Dorsey joined hands with the initial coin offering (ICO)
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square is increasing his stake in the cryptocurrency arena as the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports the bitcoin bull investing in CoinList. Dorsey’s other company, Square, is also heavily involved in bitcoin trading. Dorsey Endorses CoinList Speaking to the WSJ on the decision to invest
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