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Hal Finney’s wife resumes activity on Bitcoin pioneer’s Twitter account to avoid potential purge
Fran Finney, the wife of computer scientist Hal Finney — the recipient of the first transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain from Satoshi Nakamoto — reactivated her late husband’s Twitter account amid concerns Twitter CEO Elon Musk might purge the content from the social media platform due to inactivity. Many Crypto Twitter users reported on Dec. 16 that Finney’s account registered activity for the first time in more than 12 years. Some speculated that a hacker might have taken control of the Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer’s account and it’s more than 71,000 followers, but Fran quickly stepped in to dispel rumors. “I am tweeting for Hal […] to avoid his account being purged by Elon,” said Fran. I want to keep Hal’s account active, and occasionally will be posting from his account. When I d...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Accounts Tracking His & Other Billionaire’s Private Jets
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Elon Musk Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk, is flexing his power as Chief Twit. Twitter has banned accounts that tracked his and other billionaires’ private jets. Spotted on CNBC, Twitter has suspended the account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk’s private jet. The account @ElonJet had half a million followers and was created by Florida college student Jack Sweeney who describes himself as a fan of Musk and SpaceX, the billionaires’ other company. He claims his fandom as his reason for creating the account. He even claims his dream car is a Tesla, this poor guy. Sweeney used publicly available flight data to track where the bored billionaire was going on the account until it was suspended Wednesday morning. “Well it appears @ElonJet is suspend...
Boo Hoo, Elon Musk Is No Longer World’s Richest Man
If it felt like Elon Musk spent the last year lighting his fortune on fire, well, Bloomberg agrees, reporting that Tesla’s plummeting stock price has cost Musk so much money that he is no longer the world’s richest man. At his less-controversial apex, Musk, 51, was worth about $340 billion, but in 2022 he’s lost more than $100 billion in Tesla stock alone, and that’s before you count his massive overpay for Twitter. Now, he’s down to (only!) $168.5 billion, which is still good enough for second on the world wealth rankings. Try not to cry for him too hard. Taking over No. 1 with a fortune of $172.9 billion is Bernard Arnault. The 73-year-old owes his wealth to a 48% stake in the luxury brand LVMH, which is usually spelled out in the opposite order of its initials a...
Twitter Blasts Dave Chappelle For Bringing Out Elon Musk In San Francisco
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Dave Chappelle, already contending with criticism from his usual adoring audiences for some of his biting humor, finds himself in the crosshairs of fans once more. During a recent concert, the veteran comedian brought out Twitter chief Elon Musk, who was met with a minutes-long chorus of boos in the process, prompting Chappelle to hurl insults at the crowd. Dave Chappelle, 49, performed over the weekend at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif. where he surprised concertgoers with the appearance from Musk. As of late, Musk has become persona non grata for certain segments of the world due to his handling of the purchase of Twitter, and some of the Tesla chief’s own controversial stances. Someone attending the concert managed to capture video footage of t...
Steve Aoki Is Flying Around the Moon On SpaceX’s First Civilian Lunar Mission
Steve Aoki wants to crater to every whim. The DJ has been revealed as one of eight people selected by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to join him on a commercial space flight around the moon. The trip, organized by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and dubbed “Dear Moon,” is planned for 2023. “Life is crazy,” Aoki said in a clip recorded to capture his reaction to the news. “I’m going to go to the… moon!” According to Maezawa, a “space enthusiast” and online fashion retail mogul, the project marks the world’s first-ever civilian lunar orbital mission. He’ll be footing the bill for the 10 people he picked—including two backup crew members—who were reportedly selected from a pool of 1 million applicants. At the time of writing, Maezawa h...
Jack White Calls Out Elon Musk For Suspending Ye’s Twitter But Not Donald Trump’s
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Leon Neal / Getty As Elon Musk continues to let far-right conspiracy theorists run rampant on “Twitter 2.0,” Jack White has taken to social media to question Musk’s decisions to reinstate hate-mongering racists like Donald Trump but suspend a Nazi sympathizer like Kanye West. Taking to Instagram to air out his feelings on the matter, Jack White went off on Musk’s head-scratching decisions on which propagandists are allowed to spew their hate on the social media platform and posted a picture of Kanye’s page which read “Account suspended.” Related Stories “Conspiracy liar alex jones doesn’t get “free speech” either? I see. So you’re learning that these folks incite violence and hatred but trump…DOESN’T? Hmmm. Or is it that liar jones, and anti-Semite egoman...
Jack White Calls Out Elon Musk For Suspending Ye’s Twitter But Not Donald Trump’s
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Leon Neal / Getty As Elon Musk continues to let far-right conspiracy theorists run rampant on “Twitter 2.0,” Jack White has taken to social media to question Musk’s decisions to reinstate hate-mongering racists like Donald Trump but suspend a Nazi sympathizer like Kanye West. Taking to Instagram to air out his feelings on the matter, Jack White went off on Musk’s head-scratching decisions on which propagandists are allowed to spew their hate on the social media platform and posted a picture of Kanye’s page which read “Account suspended.” Related Stories “Conspiracy liar alex jones doesn’t get “free speech” either? I see. So you’re learning that these folks incite violence and hatred but trump…DOESN’T? Hmmm. Or is it that liar jones, and anti-Semite egoman...
Rumors of a new native ‘Twitter Coin’ emerge while Dogecoiners remain hopeful
Social media users are swirling around rumors that Twitter is looking at introducing its own native asset called “Twitter Coin” to be used for payments and tipping on the platform. Some are citing the initial reports from sources such as Nima Owji, who runs an app-focused information leak account on Twitter. On Dec. 4, he posted a screenshot of what appears to be a prototype Twitter interface showing a “Coins” option for tipping, along with a vector image showing a coin bearing Twitter’s logo. #Twitter is working on Coins! pic.twitter.com/67upjUn37D — Nima Owji (@nima_owji) December 3, 2022 Others have pointed to tweets from tech researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who claimed to have extracted code from a specific version of Twitter’s web app to find the same information as Owji, though the pos...
Elon Musk alleges SBF donated over $1B to Democrats: “Where did it go?”
The attempts of mainstream media to water down the frauds committed by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) did not fare well in convincing the crypto community and entrepreneurs. Instead, the misinformation campaign collided with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s drive to position Twitter as “the most accurate source of information.” The world is yet to overcome the shock after witnessing the legal leniency awarded to SBF for misappropriating users’ funds and shady investment practices via trading firms Alameda Research and FTX. Will Manidis, the CEO of ScienceIO, a healthcare data platform, pointed out that SBF made the “highest ROI trade of all time” by donating $40 million to the right people for getting away with stealing over $10 billion. That’s just the publicly disclosed number. His act...
“How’s That Free Speech?” Jack White Mocks Elon Musk After Twitter Bans Kanye West
“So Elon, how’s that ‘free speech’ thing working out?” Jack White wrote to Elon Musk after Twitter‘s new owner suspended Kanye West for antisemitic incitement to violence. After West’s December 1st interview with Alex Jones in which he repeatedly praised Hitler, the artist whose legal name is Ye tweeted out an altered image of a Swastika. Musk posted that West had “again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.” “Oh, I see, so you have to CHOOSE who gets free speech and who doesn’t then?” White posted on December 2nd. “What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech?” Advertisement Related Video White has been publicly critical of Musk’s so-called “free speech” approach to content moderation ever since he announced that Donald Trump woul...
Elon Musk Suspends Kanye West from Twitter for Incitement of Violence
Kanye West’s antisemitism is a bridge too far, even for Elon Musk. In one of his first acts of censorship since assuming control of Twitter, the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” deleted a series of West’s tweets featuring a swastika and imposed a 12-hour suspension on West’s account. West reacted to the news by sharing a text message from Musk, in which the Twitter CEO wrote, “Sorry, but you have gone too far. This is not love.” West also posted a shirtless photo of Musk, which he declared to be “my final tweet.” Related Video Musk responded to West via his own Twitter account. “This is fine,” Musk tweeted in response to the shirtless photo. “This is not,” he added in response to West’s use of the swastika. Advertisement In response to a Twitter user asking Musk to “fix Kanye pleas...
Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk Reportedly Thinks Berating Advertisers Is A Good Way To Bring Them Back
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty/ Elon Musk Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk, is giving a master class on successfully ruining a company in a short period. Spotted on Raw Story, Elon Musk’s Twitter has been losing advertisers at breakneck speed, and it’s all the Tesla CEO’s fault. His effort to rectify the situation reportedly is to criticize the companies for abandoning the Twitter ship, and spoiler alert, his plan is not working. Per Raw Story: The tech entrepreneur’s first month as Twitter owner has chased off half of the company’s top 100 advertisers, who have paused spending over concerns about content moderation and the firing of most of its ad sales team, and Musk has been unable to strong-arm them into returning, reported the Financial Times. “He seems to put o...
