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Crypto Community Blasts Solana Founder Over This Meme Coin/NFT Comment

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Andrew Tate seems confused as he dumps bitcoin to buy GameStop

Andrew Tate claims he’s cashed in a portion of his bitcoin holdings and invested the funds into GameStop following a new wave of hype around the controversial stock. However, he can’t seem to decide on a figure. Tate initially said he made a $50,000 investment into GameStop before changing this to half a million. He then upped the ante even more, claiming that he’d actually allotted $6 million worth of his crypto to destroy hedge funds. The hype around GameStop was fuelled by the return of investment-focused Social Media personality Roaring Kitty, who helped inspire the initial GameStop rally in 2021. pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS — Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024 Roaring Kitty has continued to post various memes. When Kitty posted on X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in three years today, GameStop’s price reportedly doubled. In response, Nasdaq has halted the trading of the stock 18 times today , likely due to the sudden price swings. ...

X has been a crypto scam-filled failure for Elon Musk — now what?

When Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion, he claimed that there were a couple of specific reasons for the move: First, he would destroy the bot-nets that had become a norm on the platform, and second, he would bring free speech back and transform Twitter into the internet’s ‘town square.’ Unfortunately, both of those promises have failed to materialize. Indeed, one of them — the idea that Musk would get rid of the bots — can be viewed in real-time, an epidemic of bots replying with ‘░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░,’ crypto scams, offers of drugs, and unrelenting verified imposter accounts. The current string of bots relies on mixing and matching different character encoding standards to avoid detection — a strategy that has, for now at least, worked shockingly well. A software engineer who spoke to Protos on background said that spam detection across all Social Media and video games “is a cat-and-mouse game that will nev...