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Zuckerberg Says Threads Has Reached 100M Sign Up Milestone

Meta's Threads app saw over 100 million registered users within a week of its launch, becoming one of the fastest-growing apps in history. CoinDesk Executive Director of Global Content Emily Parker discusses her take on the Threads hype and why Twitter has been ripe for disruption for years now.

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Legal Expert Weighs in on Gemini's Lawsuit Against DCG

Crypto firm Gemini sued Digital Currency Group last week, alleging the industry conglomerate and its founder Barry Silbert committed "fraud" through DCG subsidiary Genesis, which held funds for Gemini tied to the latter company's Earn program. Hodder Law Firm Managing Partner Sasha Hodder discusses the key takeaways. Plus, what to make of Twitter threatening to sue Facebook parent company Meta over the Threads app. CoinDesk and Genesis are both owned by DCG.

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Legal Expert Addresses Twitter's Lawsuit Threat Against Meta Over Threads

Sasha Hodder, founder and managing partner of Hodder Law Firm, addresses Twitter's threat of legal action against Facebook parent company Meta. "If it's true that these people went over there and took their trade secrets that they learned for years at Twitter, and then handed it over to Facebook and built this program using the same source code, certainly there would be some remedies available Elon, under various trade secret laws," Hodder said.

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Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Meta After Threads Debut

"The Hash" hosts discusses the hype around Threads, a new social media app built by the Instagram team at Facebook parent company Meta. Plus, Twitter's response to the competition as Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has drawn 30 million users just a day after the launch of its initial version.

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Threads Is Libra and Meta All Over Again

With his Twitter clone’s decentralized architecture, Mark Zuckerberg is yet again borrowing from crypto’s best ideas. Third time’s the charm?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies about the Libra (Diem) project before the House Financial Services Committee on October 23, 2019. The hearings helped expose just how shallow Facebook's first claims of "decentralization" were. Now, with Threads, they're trying again. (Getty Images)

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Meta Launches Twitter Rival 'Threads,' Competing with Crypto's Town Square

Facebook parent company Meta has announced the initial version of "Threads," a new social media app built by the Instagram team that aims at "sharing with text." "The Hash" panel discusses its rivalry against the cryptocurrency industry's town square, Twitter, and the other competition among social media platforms.

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You Can Now Buy NFTs on Twitter Through Inspect's Browser Extension

NFT Inspect, which recently released a Chrome browser extension that analyzes NFTs used as Twitter profile pictures, is integrating MoonPay's payment solutions.

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Twitter Now Has Daily Limits on Number of Tweets Users Can Read

Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the social media platform is setting up new "temporary limits" on the number of tweets users can read per day. "The Hash" panel discusses how the platform has changed under Musk's leadership and whether daily limits can solve bot problems on the platform.

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Jack Dorsey Questions Apple's Tim Cook Over Bitcoin Support as Damus Deplatforming Looms

The former Twitter CEO posted a tweet asking Cook why Apple Pay doesn’t support Bitcoin, following the news that the smartphone maker was threatening to eject the Bitcoin-friendly app Damus from the App Store.

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2020 Twitter Hacker Receives 5 Year Sentence on Crypto Theft, SIM Swapping Scheme

A British man who made roughly $900,000 in an elaborate Twitter hack and a separate crypto-related SIM-swapping scheme received a 5-year sentence from a federal judge on Friday, according to a report from Inner City Press. "The Hash" panel discusses the judge's ruling and the state of crypto crimes using social media.

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