25 sats \ 0 replies \ @lv99_slacker 17 Jun 2022
Elon's a clown, but bitcoin integration with Twitter would be huge. Can't front about that.
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25 sats \ 4 replies \ @random_bitcoiner 16 Jun 2022
Why do we care about what Elon Musk thinks about bitcoin again?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 16 Jun 2022
Well, if he add bitcoin payments within Twitter, that's a bitcoin wallet delivered automatically to hundreds of millions of people who might not otherwise have used or considered using bitcoin.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @random_bitcoiner 16 Jun 2022
Dude, Elon is not even buying Twitter anymore. That was just him trolling as usual. Stop wasting your mental bandwidth on the noise.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin OP 16 Jun 2022
Twitter complied (eventually) with his demand to know about prevalence of bots (by giving him access to the firehose / stream).
The buyout very well could conclude as agreed yet.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_bitcoiner 16 Jun 2022
Still, who cares? Bitcoin doesn't need a platform like Twitter to succeed. If anything Elon might change his mind last minute and decide to run it on doge instead, because of course to him it's all the same anyways. Stop cheerleading that moron.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BeefCurtin 17 Jun 2022
Elon never said Bitcoin and Bitcoin Magazine is being misleading as usual. Source, since Bitcoin Magazine can't be bothered: https://www.vox.com/recode/23171541/leaked-transcript-inside-elon-musks-first-meeting-with-twitter-employees
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 17 Jun 2022
Fair enough. Bitcoin Magazine inserted "bitcoin and" (to read: "bitcoin and crypto") and I (purposely) left out completely the "and crypto". LOL, so sue me.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Brunswick 17 Jun 2022
Elon is not buying trigger. It's a psyop to expose how degenerate the company truly is to get all the respectful people off there and onto something that isn't cooperating with the woke IC/DOJ/FBI/CIA bent on a world fiat economy and on destroying any and all remaining goodness and normalcy
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin OP 17 Jun 2022
Elon does a lot of smart stuff and then a bit of some dumb shit also, mostly for the lulz. I can't know his intention but putting up a billion dollars to secure the deal, with billions more owed is not something I think he would do without believing it will proceed. Maybe the landscape changed so he is trying to negotiate for a better price, but I myself do not think he is planning on backing out.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brunswick 17 Jun 2022
My initial impression of his strategy was that he was at first investing in it passively, then took interest in it such that he might be able to help it get past it's present obvious obstacles and bought enough interest to get their attention. Then he found, during initial negotiations that the present obstacles are irreversibly systemic and the company needed either an overhaul (rooting) or to be utterly destroyed for the good of mankind. What he has been doing all this time is taking a two-pronged approach where utter destruction may be the only resolution but he's doing diligence to leverage what good there is and transform it into something that will not be a tool of tyrrany. These goods being a base of widely accepted software and UX, combined with good concentration of customer loyalty and (false) perception of political neutrality.
I believe his perception has been, since his "first and final offer" that the likelihood of a successful acquisition and reform of the organization is very low, and that this process will be the mechanism by which its wickedness will be brought out into the light.
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