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Comparing Social Media Outlets for Developer Tips
15.5.2020
As a little experiment, I shared a development tip on three different social networks. I also tried to post it in a format that was most suitable for that particular social network:
On Twitter, I made it a thread.
On Instagram, I made it a series of images.
On YouTube, I made it a video.
How...
Wall St Veteran Launches Crypto-Powered Social Network and Marketplace
7.5.2020
Serial entrepreneur Jenny Ta has launched a crypto-powered social media network and marketplace platform that promises it won’t sell users' data
Telegram to Pay Back Investors 110% After Gram Token Launch Fails – Again
30.4.2020
Telegram has offered to refund investors after its scheduled release of the Gram token failed – again – due to regulatory complications. Investors will immediately receive 72% of their stakes, as first option, or 110% if they choose to wait another year. The second option may be paid...
Bitfinex’s New Social Network Seeks to Give Traders an Edge
27.4.2020
Bitfinex exchange has opened a social network for traders
Exclusive: Blockchain-Based Social Network Overhauls Platform, Partners With Matic
16.3.2020
An Ethereum-based social media outfit releases a platform overhaul and announces a partnership with Matic Network
Empow – Decentralized, Visually Focused Social Network
9.3.2020
Since Blockchain became well-known to the public back in the bull-run in 2017, many developer teams have started to develop blockchain-based products and applications that can be used by the masses.
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Shopify Joins Libra While Quitter Vodafone Advertises Bitcoin on Facebook
24.2.2020
Facebook’s coin project, Libra, continues to draw attention despite setbacks, including a shrinking pool of backers and a growing number of worried regulators. But now with JP Morgan seeing potential for the social network’s cryptocurrency and e-commerce giant Shopify joining the Libra...
Brave Challenges Google’s Advertising Power Before the UK Competition Watchdog
22.2.2020
The company behind the privacy-oriented browser Brave has set out to convince regulators in the U.K. to end Google’s advertising monopoly in the digital space. In a filing with the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Brave puts forward recommendations on how...
Block.One Will Not Launch Its Social Network on EOS
17.1.2020
In a departure from earlier announcements, the company now says its Facebook rival, Voice, "will be run on a purpose-made EOSIO blockchain."
Youtube ‘Christmas Purge’ Has Content Creators Pointing to These Alternate Platforms
26.12.2019
Recent widespread video removals have crypto Youtubers searching for greener and more dependable pastures for content production. While reports have since emerged of Youtube claiming the incident was an accident, and that videos are now being restored, the “Christmas Crypto purge”...
Weekly Platform News: Upgrading Navigations to HTTPS, Sale of .org Domains, New Browser Engine
5.12.2019
In this week's roundup: DuckDuckGo gets smarter encryption, a fight over the sale of dot org domains, and a new browser engine is in the works.
Let's get into the news!
DuckDuckGo upgrades and open-sources its encryption
DuckDuckGo has open-sourced its “Smarter Encryption” technology that enables...
Bitcoin Smart Contract Platform RSK Acquires Latin America’s Fourth Largest Social Network
27.9.2019
IOV Labs, the parent company of Bitcoin smart contract platform RSK, has announced the acquisition of Taringa. As a result, the Hispanic social media network’s 30 million users and 1,000+ active communities will be exposed to dapps, tokenization and P2P trading. Crypto companies acquiring...
RSK Creators Acquire Spanish Social Network
27.9.2019
Taringa claims to have some 30 million users, 1,000 active communities, and 8 million daily shares on its platform
Social Network Memo Adds Decentralized SLP Token Exchange
14.8.2019
The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), a token creation system built on top of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network continues to mature as developers have released a number of third-party applications that support SLP tokens. Now the onchain, BCH-based social network Memo.cash has implemented an SLP token...
Social Network Taringa! Launches Stablecoin Rewards for 27 Million Users
8.7.2019
South American social networking giant Taringa! has partnered with MakerDAO and Airtm to launch a stablecoin-powered points system for its 27 million strong user base
The Politicization of Money: Crypto as a Safeguard Against Economic Propaganda
27.6.2019
Money has come a long way since its origins. From cowry shells to crypto, transferable, divisible, and economically sound means of exchange have been adopted by market actors everywhere. Modern history has brought us to a dangerous place, however, a cultural climate where politics and bad economics...
Report: Facebook’s Calibra Digital Wallet Will Not Be Available in Its Largest Markets
19.6.2019
Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet will not be available in some of the social network’s largest markets, including India, according to a report
An In-Depth Look at Iris, a New Decentralized Social Network
13.6.2019
Cryptocurrency advocates have been discussing a new social media platform designed by one of Bitcoin’s earliest developers Martti Malmi, otherwise known as Sirius. The project he designed, called Iris, is a social networking application that stores and indexes everything on the user’s...
Creating Your Own SLP-Based Token Using Memo
3.6.2019
Over the last few months, Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens have been very popular among Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters and there’s been a wide variety of unique tokens created. Since then Memo.cash, the onchain social network built on Bitcoin Cash has revealed users can not only store...
EOS Based Block.One Announced Reward and Privacy-Focused Social Media Platform, Voice
3.6.2019
Blockchain tech is booming and blooming in almost every know internet based sectors, and social media is one of them. EOS has been among the leading platforms for dapps, and certainly among the best in terms of innovation. One of EOS prominent development sub-networks, Block.one has introduced...