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2769 sats \ 36 comments \ @cryotosensei 25 Jun 2023 bitcoin

What are your thoughts on Jack Dorsey?

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter. Given that he made good money by creating an influential tech company, you would think that he would just stick to what brought him fame and fortune. But, nope. He actually “fraternised with the enemy” by donating about 14 BTC to fund and facilitate Nostr’s development. And that’s not all. He also donated $10 million to OpenSats, a non-profit organization committed to developing free and open-source projects focusing on Bitcoin-related technologies. Plus, he pledged to give $5 million to Brink, a funder of open source core Bitcoin developers. Not just contented with donating money, he got his hands dirty by leading a $6 million seed funding round for Bitcoin payments firm Azteco. We can buy Bitcoin using Azteco vouchers, which are available in 195 countries, which might be a godsend for the unbanked in some developing countries.

He seems to be all about BTC adoption, as seen by how he donates his time, energy and money to Bitcoin developers. Do you think that he is doing all this out of altruism or that his generosity is tinged with some kind of hidden agenda?

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590 sats \ 5 replies \ @ramenbased 25 Jun 2023

he also started COPA, which is extremely important.

ill take him over meat eating and preaching influencer twitter drama queens any day lol

not everything is conspiratorial or has a hidden agenda. imagine yourself waking up one day with a shitload of cash, wouldnt you cough up some donations for your favorite tech?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 26 Jun 2023

Jack literally eats raw meat so I guess you can eat a dick trying to implicitly shill your cuckery in this comment. 😂🤡

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ramenbased 26 Jun 2023

imagine knowing this or caring. you know exactly what i mean now go be a good cucky and like some tweets of your favorite influencers like the good obedient follower you are.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 26 Jun 2023

You are the cuck. You listen to the fiat leftist fiat agenda, and fall for the usual leftist tropes, analogous to the mainstream view among democrats that every right wing person is "obediently" brainwashed, listening to Alex Jones and is an inbred 85 IQer.

You are an illiterate, who has stumbled into bitcoin by pure luck, despite your nature of trusting authoritarian propaganda in every single other facet of your life. You are part of the cult of the establishment and you get uncomfortable around people you find to be too uppity. The world is worse off for you not figuring it out in lockstep with your kind.

It's funny how basic your model of the world is because people like me are the first to point out the stupidity of "influencers".

You may have skin in the game (and obviously OP's question was pretty dumb), but it seems you have no soul in the game, and I am talking about life, lest you accuse me of deifying a piece of software.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ramenbased 27 Jun 2023

tldr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 27 Jun 2023

Lol

151 sats \ 1 reply \ @benthecarman 26 Jun 2023

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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @melvincarvalho 26 Jun 2023

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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @ddn0616 26 Jun 2023 freebie

I don’t really trust Jack Dorsey. But, my mind can be change. I didn’t like how he let twitter ran wild and looses control of twitter. He is the founder and creator of twitter and yet he abandoned it just so he can go create another similar platform while he can just take twitter over and revamp it. He claim to care about humanity yet he let people it became rotten t the core than switch. He let twitter fall intentionally so he can come up with another better platform knowing he can steal twitter user from them. Is is a snake in my eyes for now. I hope I am wrong. And I hope he prove me wrong.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TwoLargePizzas 26 Mar

I think he lost control of Twitter and at the point didn't have the ability to do anything about it.

It's a bit harsh to blame Jack entirely. There was 8 people on the board of directors and nobody ever mentions the other 7.

Don't get me wrong, I do think Jack fucked up somewhere but I don't think he knew the magnitude of his fuck up at the time.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 26 Jun 2023

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @btcsolutionsplus 25 Jun 2023 freebie

I believe he is doing what he owes us. He knows what is at stake and should do whatever is in his power to fix it.

After all, the censorship that occurred on Twitter during COVID happened under his watch...did they tie him up and put him in a closet or something?.... he said NOTHING so there is that.

Don't trust, verify.

165 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 25 Jun 2023

He is promoting Nostr that's something.

122 sats \ 2 replies \ @BITC0IN 25 Jun 2023

I love that he's funding open source Bitcoin development.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @nymatix 25 Jun 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BITC0IN 25 Jun 2023

23 sats \ 2 replies \ @MisterCoins 25 Jun 2023

With Jack I think of the old cliche saying “Actions speak louder than words.” I’m wondering if some of his silence regarding his experience at Twitter is strategic.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nymatix 25 Jun 2023

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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @MisterCoins 25 Jun 2023

If he were to name people or disparage bad actors in the corporate world and/or US government they’d take him off the board. Personally, I think everyone should be concerned about the complete merger between corporations and state.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 26 Jun 2023

Didn't like him at twitter in his last couple of years. Since he left I've come around though.

But he's doing awesome stuff for bitcoin. There aren't many doing this kind of work so we're blessed to have him

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 26 Jun 2023

Whatever people believe he may or may not done at twitter to harm free speech, he's done 1000x more for free speech by funding NOSTR & the lightning network since.

He's clearly one of the best bitcoiners & freedom activists of our time. Those that think otherwise aren't seeing all the good he's doing these days.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @franzap 25 Jun 2023

Is he in any way linked to the WEF? If not, I don't mind if he has a hidden agenda

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @billiam 26 Jun 2023

He is a good guy, a Jedi.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kdnolan 9 Aug

He's an ACTUAL philanthropist and a good dude.

The complete inverse of a Bill Gates.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 27 Jun 2023

I think it's great the funds going to Nostr. I also think his beard and septum piercing are kinda cool (I have one but haven't worn it in ages).

If you can say that centralised social media and the censorship/control agenda are evil (duh) then he is just making amends for being part of the downward spiral to the media manipulation matrix of today. Good on him for giving back after taking away.

I can accept that maybe he was only dimly but increasingly aware of the outside influence on his company but the dude more than likely had bogus ideas amongst it all from those times anyhow.

Twitter was originally a way to turn SMS into a broadcast system using the at the time new sms gateway servers. That was Jack. The rest, well, the more popular it became the more the enemy infiltrated, coerced and threatened.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Louferlou 26 Jun 2023

I think he is a net positive for Bitcoin of course, but he is also a bit to leftist to be fully trusted IMO

He let Twitter go woke. He went full in Covid psyop by allocating a significant part of his wealth to the "Covid fight" whatever that means. He is in involved in politics which I believe he should stay away for his own sake and that of Bitcoin, otherwise it may looks like crony capitalism that leftist are fond of, but that I despite personally.

But I also believe that he is sincere in his fight overall. He may do some mistakes due to his very "left minded" vision of the world but still, he understood at least that some things like money or freedom of speech can't be left in the hands of governments which is good enough for now.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0000 25 Jun 2023

There is no altruism. Blue Sky is a good example. It appears to be decentralized in the sense that it is federated with the goal that the company runs their own Blue Sky instance for its users. So it may be decentralized but if you are banned off the biggest instance and have to move to a different one that is effectively no different than moving from one platform to the next, which does not solve the problem any of this set out to solve in the first place.

Truth is you cannot have both a moderated platform and a decentralized one. But Blue Sky needs it to be moderated if they want to exist as a company running their own instance. The only reason they will run their own instance is because they see a path to profitability and monopolistic growth.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 25 Jun 2023

I did two times hackathons organized by Square, and have seen how their hardware is used in practice in Tokyo. Square targets payments systems and everything around that (like ways to manage through their APIs things like invoices, customers, employees, bookings, inventories, orders, etc). Square also sells POS which look a bit like macbooks in the past (white unicolor).

So from that, I guess Bitcoin could be a good back end to minimize cost when managing payments. Since it is international i believe there is a high cost of entry to do payment systems legally. At the moment as far as I have seen their API doesn't use Bitcoin since it can only generate payment links to pay through Google pay or Apple pay I believe, but I would not be surprise if Lightning invoices are integrated in the future.

I don't know if there is anything hidden since I almost never listened to Jack Dorsey directly, but from what I know of his company I would say Bitcoin fits his business model even though I didn't see Bitcoin transactions yet integrated in the Square API.

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34 sats \ 4 replies \ @Zepasta 25 Jun 2023

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123 sats \ 3 replies \ @nymatix 25 Jun 2023

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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @btcsolutionsplus 25 Jun 2023 freebie

Dr Shiva Ayadurai has an active lawsuit with Twitter regarding censorship. Dorsey was aware of the government censorship portal.... during 2020 Musk did not aqcuire Twitter until 2022

Twitter files were released as controlled disclosure... Matt Taibbi, Tucker Carlson and all the other social media grifters knew about it .