{"id":41334,"date":"2020-07-18T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/no-the-twitter-hack-wasnt-about-bitcoin-coindesk-coindesk.php"},"modified":"2020-07-18T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:54:54","slug":"no-the-twitter-hack-wasnt-about-bitcoin-coindesk-coindesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/bitcoin\/no-the-twitter-hack-wasnt-about-bitcoin-coindesk-coindesk.php","title":{"rendered":"No, the Twitter Hack Wasn&#8217;t About Bitcoin &#8211; CoinDesk &#8211; CoinDesk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The motivations and implications of a Twitter hack that had everyone from Coinbase to Kanye shilling a scam for bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Expert commentary provided by Dr. Tom Robinson, chief scientist and co-founder of Elliptic<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, at around 2:15 p.m. EDT, prominent Crypto Twitter accounts started sharing a similar message about abitcoingiveaway. A couple of hours later, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were saying they were feeling generous and wanting to give bitcoin away. A couple more hours and every verified blue check mark account on Twitter was taken down. Its the great Twitter hack of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It was an attack with massive implications, if not much monetary gain.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode NLW breaks down:<\/p>\n<p>The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/no-the-twitter-hack-wasnt-about-bitcoin\" title=\"No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't About Bitcoin - CoinDesk - CoinDesk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't About Bitcoin - CoinDesk - CoinDesk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The motivations and implications of a Twitter hack that had everyone from Coinbase to Kanye shilling a scam for bitcoin. Expert commentary provided by Dr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24697],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}