Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss went from Facebook co-creators tricked by Mark Zuckerberg (as dramatized in the movie “The Social Network”) to early adopters of crypto who became “Bitcoin billionaires.” Now their business has been loaded by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC on Thursday charged the Gemini twins’ cryptocurrency exchange with …
Posted on December 27, 2022 Posted by John Scalzi (Photo: The Royal Society, used under Creative Commons. Additional photo editing by me) If I have a wish coming out of 2022, is that this is the year — eventually – when the myth of the supposed skill and virtue of billionaires is buried in a …
CNN — On Wednesday, Twitter permanently suspended an account that tracked the location of Elon Musk’s private jet, although the owner of the social media company promised last month that he would leave the account open as part of his “pledge to freedom of expression”. The @ElonJet accountwhich had amassed over 500,000 subscribers, was taken …
November 10 (Reuters) – (This story contains language that some readers may find offensive in paragraph 2) On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off guard with a grim message. “I’m sorry,” he told them. “I screwed up.” The reason for the mea culpa: its announcement half an hour …
Kanye West fans have launched a GoFundMe campaign to make the beleaguered rapper a billionaire again. Fans launched several pages – one being succinctly titled “Make Kanye West a Billionaire Again” with a fundraising goal of $1 billion – after West’s net worth took a serious hit last week when Adidas dropped it. That specific …
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