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Jack Dorsey Gives Grants to Signal App and Social Network Nostr

Jack Dorsey donated roughly 14 BTC, about $245,000, to further fund development of Nostr, an open protocol that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. This comes as Dorsey pledged to donate $1 million annually to encrypted messaging app Signal. "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the future of decentralized social media.

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Tech

Jack Dorsey Gives Decentralized Social Network Nostr 14 BTC in Funding

The former Twitter CEO has donated roughly 14 BTC worth $245,000 to fund Nostr's development, after recently publishing his views on a native internet protocol for social media.

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Web3

Web3 Community Platform Console Launches Beta to Fix 'Broken' Social Networks

The decentralized, privacy-forward startup hopes to address the challenges Web3 communities face on other social networks like spam, bots and reckless crypto shilling.

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Social Media Has Peaked: Chelsea Manning

Whistleblower and Nym Security Engineer of Hardware Optimization Chelsea Manning shares her hot take on "First Mover." Social media has reached "a point of saturation ... I think it's exhausting people."

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Finance

Social-Media Giant LINE Closes Its Crypto Exchange Bitfront

The firm will focus on its native blockchain and token, LINK.

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Opinion

Decentralized Social Media – Has the Moment Come?

With Elon Musk's Twitter seeing a backlash, users are flocking to Web3 alternatives like Lens, Minds and Mastodon. Will the trend last?

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Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Continues to Engage Public via Twitter

Following a series of curious one-letter tweets over the past couple of days, Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, has returned to typing out full sentences and can't seem to stay off of Twitter. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in FTX's collapse and the role of social media.

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Crypto Wallet for Twitter on Pause?

"If Twitter turns into a protocol ... we don't necessarily need to use the Twitter official wallet," says Mask Network CEO Suji Yan. He discusses Elon Musk's involvement with Twitter as the social media giant is reportedly halting its work on a crypto wallet.

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Meta's Instagram Will Soon Allow Creators to Mint, Sell NFTs

Starting this week, Instagram will allow a select group of digital creators to mint and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the social media platform. "The Hash" team discusses the latest in Instagram's Web3 ambitions bringing blockchain awareness to the mainstream. 

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