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Twitter to Add Bitcoin Lightning Tips, NFT Authentication

Tipping, including with bitcoin, will be live on iOS immediately.

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Finance

On Having Fun Staying Poor

Those plebs on Twitter may have your best interest in mind.

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Bitcoin Could Become Payment Option for Twitter’s Tip Jar Feature

A new report revealed that Twitter could soon enable users to tip content creators using bitcoin following the latest update to its “Tip Jar” feature in its beta code, indicating that users will be given bitcoin tutorials.

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Finance

Twitter Could Be Adding Bitcoin as Payment Option for Tip Jar: Report

The social media giant is also advertising legal and compliance jobs overseeing payments with experience in crypto preferred.

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Markets

Why Avatars Dominate the NFT Market

Blockchain collectibles come in many flavors, but one is clearly leading the pack.

A selection of Bored Apes, one of the best-selling NFT avatar series.

Videos

Twitter Picks Crypto Developer Jay Graber to Run Decentralized Social Media Wing 'Bluesky'

Crypto developer Jay Graber, who contributed to the privacy coin project Zcash until October 2018, will lead Twitter's "Bluesky" initiative to help create a decentralized social media protocol. "The Hash" hosts discuss the possible future of Twitter and social media following the social networking site's latest step towards decentralization.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Getting Philosophical

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a vocal crypto advocate, shared Austrian economist Murray Rothbard’s book “Anatomy of the State” in a tweet that was received positively by bitcoiners but confused some libertarians. “The Hash” panel discusses Dorsey introducing voluntarist ideas to the masses and the implications for the politics of Twitter and the overall crypto community.

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