Australia’s Social Media Crackdown: Big Brother or Bold Move?
Australia’s proposed move to ban social media access for young teens has sparked a global debate over the balance between protecting children and infringing on individual freedoms.
Bitfinex adds social media to crypto exchange
Bitfinex has launched a social networking platform for its users called Pulse. The platform brands itself as “the next generation of social trading.”
Jack Dorsey plans open-source social media protocol
As the internet has evolved, it has shifted from public open-source protocols to private platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. With the help of blockchain, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey plans to liberate social media by taking it back to a protocol-powered future.
New report identifies coins profiting from fake social media engagement
A new report by researchers at The Tie provides insight into which digital assets are being manipulated via bots and fake social media accounts.
US Election 2020: An upvote for decentralized media and Web 3.0
A new BNC Research report into the degradation of information and the rise of fake news identifies it as both a growing macro trend – and also an important investment opportunity in Web 3.0’s new decentralized media model.
Decentralized social media is peer-to-peering into the future
Social media proofs of concept on the blockchain demonstrate important value propositions of decentralized apps. In 2016, Steemit pioneered the world’s first blockchain-based decentralized social network and in my view remains one of the most important blockchain projects today. Boiled down to its simplest form, Steemit is a kind of reddit with the property that creating interesting content, or curating it effectively, will earn users real money on the platform in the form of a cryptocurrency called Steem. There is no barrier to entry. Just create an account and start earning.
3D Printing, Crypto and Steemit with Celia
Celia reached out to us after feeling disaffected by Steemit and hoping that Yours might avoid some of their problems. Since Steemit is one of our closest competitors, we knew that Celia’s input would be extremely valuable to help identify places where we need to improve.
Talking Bitcoin Social with Daniel Cawrey
As the former COO of ZapChain and writer for bitcoin publications, Daniel Cawrey is one of the most experienced people in the world at the intersection of bitcoin and media. Daniel has also been involved in our community since the very beginning when it was just an open-source project in 2015. When Daniel suggested he would be interested in demoing our current product, we jumped at the chance to get his thoughts on the current state of Yours and how we can make our product work well for content creators.
Yours raises funds for bitcoin based Reddit alternative
I met the CEO of reddit, Yishan Wong, at a restaurant in San Francisco in the summer of 2014. Yishan shared with me his vision of reddit as internetland, like a nation state with no physical borders. The only thing missing from internetland was money, so the users could pay each other for their work. Cryptocurrency seemed like the right tool for this, because it was native to the internet, just like reddit itself. I joined reddit as the world’s first cryptocurrency engineer to help Yishan implement his vision.
Bitcoin based social media community, Yours, completes micropayment system
Yours is a social media community like reddit, but where every user has an integrated wallet so they can easily pay each other for things. It’s the first social media community with a real economy. See the pitch we recently gave at Boost VC for an overview of the idea.
Sync.cr Attempts To Enable Global Social Commerce With Bitcoin
A new app hopes to bring digital currency’s cheap and fast payments to the growing market of social commerce, products and services sold through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
What Is Synereo: Decentralised Social Networking
23 March is the beginning of the Synereo Crowd Sale, where 18.5% of all initially created tokens will be sold to help develop the project. Those who purchase the AMPs from the crowd sale get exclusive early access to bits of Synereo.
GetGems Forms Strategic Partnerships and Attracts VC Funding
GetGems, the new social messenger service confirms 2633 BTC were raised via their Koinify crowdfund and have attracted interest from VC Firm Magma.
