BlueSky – DIGIT INFO

Meta to scrap fact-checkers in favor of ‘free expression’

DIGIT — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:56:10 +0000

The social media company will switch to a community notes model similar to the X platform’s, Meta said.

Could Bitcoiners embrace BlueSky, an X alternative that hit 25M users?

DIGIT — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:41:41 +0000

The social media platform roughly doubled its number of users since November, suggesting it may have pulled some US-based X users after the presidential election.

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Bluesky adds 1 million new users in 3 days amid X ban in Brazil

DIGIT — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 04:19:24 +0000

The decentralized microblogging platform has seen traffic and user numbers surge following the X expulsion from Brazil.

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Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin will be worth ‘at least a million’ by 2030

DIGIT — Fri, 10 May 2024 04:05:44 +0000

“I do think it hits that number and goes beyond,” said the Twitter co-founder on his million-dollar Bitcoin prediction.

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Jack Dorsey leaves board of decentralized social network Bluesky

DIGIT — Mon, 06 May 2024 06:30:58 +0000

Jack Dorsey backed and funded Bluesky when he was Twitter’s CEO; now, he’s left the board of the social network, and it’s searching for a replacement.

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Jack Dorsey unveils decentralized social with algo choice and portable accounts

DIGIT — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:49:45 +0000

The long-awaited “Bluesky Social” app is now accepting users for private beta and says it will “launch soon”

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‘Decentralized Twitter’ Bluesky releases code, outlines content moderation

DIGIT — Fri, 06 May 2022 02:23:42 +0000

Bluesky outlined that it is “not possible to have a usable social network without moderation,” and intends to build a moderation model for the network dubbed “speech and reach.”

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Coinbase took out the first Bitcoin-backed loan from Goldman Sachs

DIGIT — Wed, 04 May 2022 03:31:47 +0000

The largest exchange in the U.S. has taken out a loan from Goldman collateralized in Bitcoin as a Wall Street first, paving the way for others to follow.

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Crypto developer will lead Twitter’s decentralized social media initiative

DIGIT — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:05:00 +0000

The new lead plans on hiring for the Bluesky team and “partnering closely with Twitter and other companies” as part of the next steps towards fulfilling the decentralized social media plan.

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Jack Dorsey Hints at Lightning Network Integration on Twitter

DIGIT — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:30:55 +0000

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, hinted at the possibility of integrating Lightning Network into Twitter yesterday. Dorsey answered a Tweet of a follower saying it was “just a matter of time” for this to be a fact. Dorsey is a big Bitcoin proponent and has extended Bitcoin functionality to another of his companies, Square. Jack […]

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