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Twitter to Add Bitcoin Lightning Tips, NFT Authentication

Tipping, including with bitcoin, will be live on iOS immediately.

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Bitcoin Could Become Payment Option for Twitter’s Tip Jar Feature

A new report revealed that Twitter could soon enable users to tip content creators using bitcoin following the latest update to its “Tip Jar” feature in its beta code, indicating that users will be given bitcoin tutorials.

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Square's Jack Dorsey Plans to Build Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange

Payment giant Square plans to build a decentralized bitcoin exchange via its new division focused on creating an open developer platform, with more details TBD, said CEO Jack Dorsey. "The Hash" squad unpacks the industry implications for Dorsey's latest crypto project and the possible hurdles for rolling out such a protocol.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Getting Philosophical

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a vocal crypto advocate, shared Austrian economist Murray Rothbard’s book “Anatomy of the State” in a tweet that was received positively by bitcoiners but confused some libertarians. “The Hash” panel discusses Dorsey introducing voluntarist ideas to the masses and the implications for the politics of Twitter and the overall crypto community.

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What Square’s Expansion Means for Traditional Banking and Crypto World

Jack Dorsey’s Square, the point-of-sale (POS) payment processor and the parent company of Cash App has agreed to acquire installment-payment firm Afterpay for $29 billion in the push to offer cheaper, more responsible transactions. This comes on the heels of Cash App’s bitcoin revenue rising 200% in Q2 to $55 million.

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Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Raises Square Holdings After Dorsey Announcement

Square's intentions to build out crypto products, including a hardware wallet, align with ARK ambitions to realize its exchange-traded fund.

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Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Decentralized Financial Services

Payments services firm Square will open a new business focused on creating an “open developer platform” to make it easier to provide non-custodial, decentralized financial services, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday in a series of tweets. The division’s “primary focus” would be bitcoin.

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Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Financial Services

CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted the still to-be-named division's "primary focus" would be bitcoin.

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