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Friend.tech: The Legal and Tax Ins and Outs of This Year’s Hottest Crypto App

Friend.tech, a decentralized social media platform in which you can buy and sell “keys” in your friends on X, whose value can go up and down, has become a viral sensation, racking up as many as 100,000 users since launching on August 10. Securities and banking law professor at George Mason Law School JW Verret, and tax partner and co-head of the Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice at Fried Frank Jason Schwartz, share their thoughts.

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Twitter Source Code Leaked, Sparks Search for Perpetrator

According to court filings, Twitter is on the hunt for the person who leaked the platform's proprietary source code that was published on GitHub until last week. "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the social media network and beyond.

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Facebook Parent Meta Exploring Decentralized Text-Based App: Report

Meta Platforms (META), the parent company of Facebook, is working on a decentralized text-based app, according to a report by TechCrunch on Friday. "The Hash" panel discusses Meta's latest push towards decentralized social media and the potential outcomes.

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Bitcoin Slips Below $24K Amid New Inflation Data; Coinbase’s New Layer 2 Blockchain Has Rocky Rollout

Bitcoin (BTC) failed to recapture the $24,000 support level following the release of the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index, also referred to as the Fed's favorite inflation gauge. Plus, crypto exchange Coinbase’s new layer 2 blockchain Base had a rough start on Thursday, drawing a stream of complaints from users on social media.

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Twitter Integrates Crypto, Stock Prices in Search Results

"The Hash" hosts give their hot takes on social media platform Twitter integrating cryptocurrency and stock prices into search results, using a plug-in from charting platform TradingView.

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Jack Dorsey Gives Grants to Signal App and Social Network Nostr

Jack Dorsey donated roughly 14 BTC, about $245,000, to further fund development of Nostr, an open protocol that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. This comes as Dorsey pledged to donate $1 million annually to encrypted messaging app Signal. "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the future of decentralized social media.

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Social Media Has Peaked: Chelsea Manning

Whistleblower and Nym Security Engineer of Hardware Optimization Chelsea Manning shares her hot take on "First Mover." Social media has reached "a point of saturation ... I think it's exhausting people."

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Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Continues to Engage Public via Twitter

Following a series of curious one-letter tweets over the past couple of days, Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, has returned to typing out full sentences and can't seem to stay off of Twitter. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in FTX's collapse and the role of social media.

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