After facing an act of infringement, Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, urged the citizens to “to remain vigilant when dealing with cryptocurrency platforms.” He observed that in BitClout, a social token platform, someone has set up a profile to sell tokens using the information from his Twitter account, without his authorized consent. Loong said: I have nothing to do with the platform. It is misleading and done without my permission. On April 2, in a Facebook post

A tweet that happened to garner a huge interest among the Twitterati and has made the Teletubbies fanbase perplexed, generating excitement at the same time. Teletubbies on March 31 tweeted with #Bitcoin leaving the netizens along with crypto individuals guessing on the 1997 series’ next move. The 1997 British children’s television series is however giving an inkling that the lovely characters might be the recent entrant to dip their toes in the crypto world. On 31 March, the

Report said that Twitter suspended a number of major cryptocurrency-related accounts, which includes some of the industry’s biggest influencers. It has been reported that Peter McCormack, the Bitcoin (BTC) podcaster, along with six crypto-related accounts have been recently suspended by Twitter. However, the listed accounts include some of the most prominent crypto figures on Twitter with over 300,000 subscribers like Bitcoin on-chain analyst Willy Woo and BTC stock-to-flow m

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has donated 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to Brink, a nonprofit group focused on Bitcoin’s technological framework. Brink’s Twitter account posted: “Honored to have received a 1 BTC donation to our developer funding efforts from none other than @jack!” It has been reported that earlier this month, it showed that the recently established organization is receiving 503(c)(3) nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service, giving Brink a break on federal ta

Ned Segal, the CFO of Twitter, has said that Twitter may be the next major company to purchase Bitcoin. It has been reported in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on February 10 that Segal, who has served as the CFO of Twitter since 2017, responded to questions about how Twitter would react to Tesla’s recent $1.5 billion Bitcoin (BTC) investment this week. Segal said that the tech firm was watching other companies closely, and discussed potentially adding the crypto asset to i

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the CEO of Tesla, has updated his Twitter bio on January 29 (Friday) with the word “Bitcoin,” it was followed by a near-immediate 13% increase to the Bitcoin (BTC) spot price. It has been reported that Musk’s bio appeared to be updated on Friday morning and was followed by a cryptic tweet that referred to the inevitability of something. In retrospect, it was inevitable — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2021 However, tweeted at 8:22 am

Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, has joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in updating their Twitter bios to “#Bitcoin.” The @Reddit co-founder has now joined the ranks of stars to update their Twitter bio with #Bitcoin. Who is going to be evangelized next?https://t.co/W33roT0QfS — Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) January 29, 2021 In reaction to a tweet by tech entrepreneur and erstwhile Coinbase chief technical officer Balaji Srinivasan, Ohanian’s bi

Report said that Twitter analytics data indicates that social media interest in the digital currency is setting new records across numerous key metrics, as Bitcoin continues to post all-time highs well into the $30,000s. It has been reported that in a tweet on Saturday (January 2) that the official handle for The TIE, a cryptocurrency data firm, showed that the number of unique Twitter handles tweeting about Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high by eclipsing a 64,000 mark last

Mask Network has launched a trading widget allowing Twitter users to trade on Uniswap, access market data, and trade Ethereum-based crypto assets without leaving the social platform. It has been reported that the new Mask widget, powered by Uniswap and CoinMarketCap, brings up a window featuring market data and an interface for trading on Uniswap when users hover the mouse pointer over crypto asset tickers in posts. However, on September 24, the new widget announced in a Twee

Cypherium, the New York-based highly scalable & permissionless blockchain company involved in China’s Blockchain Service Network (BSN) initiative, has got its own branded Twitter emoji on Sep 16, 2020. This is the fourth crypto emoji on Twitter after Bitcoin, Crypto.com and Binance. #Cypherium #CPH — Cypherium Blockchain (@CypheriumChain) September 15, 2020 Cypherium is an enterprise-level smart contract platform that features a unique dual-chain hybrid consensus mechanism.

Discussions.app and Telos will collaborate on tools to record Twitter and other social media accounts on the blockchain. It has been reported that the first project to come out of the new collaboration will be a decentralized identity system, allowing users to record their accounts and contacts from Twitter and other social networks to the blockchain in the event of a block or ban. However, in the social-media age, users spend years growing networks and followers on various p

Rod Hsu, the President and Co-founder of Coincurve, the virtual currency platform, has said that facial recognition can help prevent future Bitcoin (BTC) scams like those that hit Twitter and YouTube. It has been reported that Hsu said Bitcoin is an electronic form of currency that is non-reversible and somewhat anonymous, “coupled with this gap in understanding makes it appealing for scam artists.” But because of the negative publicity the cryptocurrency got with the scams,

Cybersecurity experts said that Twitter needs to strengthen its security to avoid a worse scenario with serious consequences due to the massive Twitter hack on July 15. It has been reported that attackers, in the most recent incident, launched a crypto giveaway scam by posting phishing messages through the hijacked profiles of celebrities and high-ranked political personalities worldwide, collecting over 13 Bitcoin (BTC) from the victims. However, Ilya Sachkov, the CEO of thr

Twitter promises to add more security training and measures due to the massive hack on Wednesday (July 15) that hit 130 accounts including celebrities. It has been reported by Twitter that it is continuing its investigation into the hack while it looks to provide more company-wide security training against social engineering tactics. However, this will be in addition to cybersecurity coaching they get during onboarding and ongoing phishing exercises. Around 130 accounts were

The Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI is leading an inquiry into the massive Twitter hack. According to a recent WSJ report, FBI’s San Francisco office said on Thursday that it has initiated an investigation after hackers accessed Twitter’s internal systems to hijack accounts of prominent figures such as US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital assets.

A large-scale Synchronized Twitter attack affected top politicians, celebrities and cryptocurrency-related verified twitter accounts appeared including exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, and Gemini, Kucoin and more. The attacker posted about fake giveaways from the compromised accounts, asking for BTC payments while promising to send back double the amount received. Each tweet involved a scam Bitcoin (BTC) giveaway or trap. Several bitcoin addresses were used, which togethe

Crypto key management platform, Torus now allows users to send cryptocurrencies through social media platforms such as Twitter, GitHub. With Torus’ latest update, v1.7.2, users can now send tokens to any Twitter or GitHub account, even if that account has never used Torus’ crypto wallet. Interact with Blockchains via Twitter, AppleID, GitHub, Line, LinkedIn and Passwordless accounts!https://t.co/SnHVIiZuff — Torus (@TorusLabs) July 6, 2020 Announced on July 6, Torus showcase

Tron (TRX) becomes the fourth blockchain project to receive a custom Twitter emoji hashtag, as Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, has revealed the new emoji in a tweet yesterday. Our new #TRON & #TRX are LIVE, try it out & win gifts! 🎉 1st: Macbook Pro 2nd: iPhone 11 Pro 3rd: Airpods Pro 4th-10th: #TRON Merch Steps: 1. Follow @justinsuntron @Poloniex @OfficialDLive @Tronfoundation 2. Add #TRON emoji logo in your bio 3. Share the bio screenshot below https://t.co/XXHBxqQhUM

Binance’s cryptocurrency, Binance Coin (BNB) is the third crypto to receive a branded emoji hashtag following Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto.com. It was tweeted by CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao himself, showcasing the new emoji: Source: CZ Binance CZ appears to be visibly excited with the change, while tweeting: Source: CZ Binance Branded hashtags are a little known service provided by Twitter to high value brands. While the only confirmed report cites costs of $1 million, that qu

Social media has become indistinguishable from daily life for the majority of people in this developed world. Only 10% of people were on social media platforms in 2010, and it was largely the domain of teens and young people expressing their personalities through the unique backgrounds, embedded songs, and quotes littering their MySpace profiles. By 2017, the percentage of people on at least one social media platform had risen to 80%. Over 3 billion people worldwide have a pr