Messengers and social

Facebook’s metaverse plans have caused discomfort in the crypto community, but there’s every reason to believe in a decentralized future for metaverses.

With just hours to go, the results of a survey Musk says he will "abide by" demand that he sell 10% of his TSLA holdings.

After Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, the newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams would be taking his paycheck in Bitcoin as well.

The team said that financial services firms were expected to hire more than three times as many staff with experience in digital assets than in 2015.

Although it can be argued, bitcoin is one of (if not the) most secure networks in the world. The hash rate for the network is the amount of computing power dedicated to securing it and it is typically deemed as the litmus test of the general security.

Japan’s Line social network, the largest in the country, has announced the launch of its digital currency ‘Link’ in the Japanese market from April. The token has previously been available in all countries except Japan and the US.

YouTube has restored videos of almost all crypto-related channels after removing them earlier this week.

YouTube erroneously purged cryptocurrency education videos from its video-sharing platform this week but claims to have reinstated them, according to a spokesperson. Content creators, however, are telling a different story.

r/Bitcoin on Reddit remains one of the most popular forums for Bitcoin fans. Recently, the subreddit reached a milestone of 1,200,000 subscribers.

While the social media monetary situation is not this clear cut, both Dorsey and Zuckerberg have emerged as champions of two similar but opposing ideas; the internet needs its own currency, one sees it as centralised, through Facebook, the other sees it as decentralised, through bitcoin.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Kik’s August defense of its $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) was “untenable” and is asking judges to toss it.

Following a recent red flag from the United States regulators, a private Telegram channel for Telegram Open Network (TON) investors is taking a break.

RSK parent company IOV Labs has acquired social platform Taringa to solicit feedback on its offerings and incentivize content creators.

A security researcher has discovered databases containing more than 419 million records tied to Facebook accounts. It appears the data -- which includes phone numbers and Facebook IDs and in some cases users' names, genders and countries -- was scraped from the platform. However, it's not clear who pulled that information from Facebook or why.

“The cheating on the number of subscribers in social networks was invented long before the introduction of cryptocurrencies,” says the co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine - Maxim Krupyshev.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend “however long it takes” to get regulators and others on board before launching the Libra cryptocurrency project.

Over 600,000 Russians used the Tor browser on July 11, 2019, which is the all-time record for the country. The fact is confirmed by data on the official website of the project.

Latin American social networking giant Taringa! has partnered with MakerDAO and e-wallet provider Airtm to launch a stablecoin-powered points system for its 27 million strong user base.

Blockchain advisory firm AmaZix is opening up access to its “moderation bot” to help stamp out cryptocurrency scams on popular messaging app Telegram.

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin said that Facebook’s Libra token is like “a centralized wolf in a decentralized sheep’s clothing” in an article published on tech news outlet Quartz on June 21.