Many crypto heavyweights use Twitter as their primary tool for sharing information (or even misinformation) about their own projects or other interesting subjects. Some of them even consider Twitter engagement their most important performance indicator. We decided to put the Twitter habits of the crypto elite under a microscope to get a better sense of how they actually engage with the popular social media platform. Android, Apple or Web? For our analysis, we picked 13 crypto entrepreneurs (we measured each Winklevoss twin’s habits independently). To make our list, the subjects had to be actively running a crypto business and command …
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Weekend trap? Bitcoin hits $7,300 in attempt to finally break out At the start of the week, we knew a big move for Bitcoin was brewing — but it was unclear whether or not the world’s biggest cryptocurrency was heading to $6,000 or $8,000. After a scary slip below $6,666, we got our answer on …
Short-video sharing app TikTok has recorded its first viral Bitcoin (BTC)-related video as the firm’s owner reportedly launched a blockchain venture. Posted by TikTok personality The Wolf of Bitcoins, the video depicts a room in a house apparently equipped with dozens of cryptocurrency mining hardware units. The video displays a short caption, “this is why GPU prices went up,” and has a number of Bitcoin-related tags like “Bitcoin,” “explain Bitcoin” and “Bitcoin mining.” Allegedly first appearance of Bitcoin on TikTok feed At the time of this writing, the TikTok has amassed 1.2 million views and over 109,000 likes on the …
Crypto Twitter has gone after Nic Carter, a prominent advocate of Bitcoin (BTC), for his involvement in Dynamic, a third-party wallet authentication project that could potentially prevent wallet transactions to be performed if a wallet is categorized as risky. In a tweet, Carter shared his excitement in backing the project, tweeting Dynamic's announcement about a recently completed $7.5 million raise led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Following this, users flocked to Carter’s Twitter, expressing their disappointment because of the move. Twitter user Lifetheuniverce argued that what Dynamic is creating is the “antitheses of what Bitcoin was created for.” The Twitter user …
According to reports on Oct. 28, the crypto exchange Binance intends to create a team to work on crypto and blockchain solutions for Twitter, following the acquisition of the social media company by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The development came hours after Binance's founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, confirmed that the company had backed Musk with $500 million in financing, making the crypto exchange the fourth-biggest contributor to the takeover amid 19 investors that provided $7 billion to Tesla's founder. On Twitter, CZ confirmed that the money was wired earlier this week and clarified that the transaction was …