According to a March 10 tweet by Bitcoin (BTC) podcaster Peter McCormack, at least six crypto-related accounts have been recently suspended by Twitter. 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 model creator PlanB, as well as crypto advocate TheCryptoDog. Other industry-related accounts like MMCrypto, TheMoon, Koroush AK, and WSBChairman — who claims that the account is not associated with Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets community — have also been suspended. Full list of account suspensions:@woonomic @100trillionUSD@mmcrypto@wsbchairman@themooncarl@TheCryptoDog @KoroushAK Strangely @PeterSchiff hasn't though, what gives? https://t.co/i6L5e93BTV …
Roger Ver, executive chairman of major cryptocurrency website, Bitcoin.com, now says that Bitcoin.com’s forum closure announcement was premature. Yesterday, Bitcoin.com’s forum abruptly dropped an alert about the upcoming closure of the forum on July 23. Posted by a forum administrator, the announcement did not specify the reasons behind the action. Subsequently, Bitcoin.com’s exec, Ver, said that the forum will soon make a reversal announcement. In a June 26 email to Cointelegraph, Ver wrote: “This caught me by surprise too, and I think the announcement was premature. I suspect there will be a reversal announcement soon.” Despite Ver’s response, the closure …
r/Wallstreetbets, a subreddit famous for organizing a pump for Dogecoin and the GameStop short squeeze, is enacting a crypto discussion ban after officially allowing the topic for a single day. Subreddit moderator u/bawse1 announced on Thursday that r/Wallstreetbets has now banned crypto discussions forever, following a Bloomberg article titled “WallStreetBets Bows to Crypto.” Just a day before, the same moderator officially announced that the subreddit will finally allow crypto discussion strictly limited to Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE). The new post reads: “Due to the article that was written [by] Bloomberg who somehow felt that ‘WallStreetBets Bows to …
Bitcoin Cash figurehead Roger Ver has dramatically announced that Bitcoin ABC and its lead developer Amaury Sechet are “forking away from #BitcoinCash on Nov 15th”. Bitcoin ABC and @deadalnix have announced that they are forking away from #BitcoinCash on Nov 15th. We wish them good luck with their new coin and thank them for the free airdrop to all BCH holders. — Roger Ver (@rogerkver) September 1, 2020 That’s not quite what’s happening. The post actually suggests the fractured BCH community will battle it out over which fork gets to claim the ‘Bitcoin Cash’ brand — Bitcoin ABC or upstart …
Bitcoin.com executive chairman Roger Ver has brushed aside assertions that his website laid off 50% of its workforce, labeling the claims “more Bcash FUD.” Several cryptocurrency news outlets reported the layoff news after a post appeared on Candor, a site that purports to list jobs lost in response to the coronavirus. Problems with Candor’s methods However, Candor’s list is entirely user-generated, meaning anyone can list job layoff statistics from companies they have nothing to do with. Judging by Ver’s recent posts on the r/btc subreddit (which he also moderates), that appears to have been the case regarding Bitcoin.com. When asked …