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Elizabeth Lopatto
Jay Peters
X is still marching toward offering payments.
Bloomberg has a big report on X’s efforts to let you make payments through the app, including that it has made agreements with payment processors like Stripe.
Bloomberg also found not-great financials from 2023:
[Documents] show that X generated $1.48 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2023, down almost 40% from the same period in 2022, before Musk bought the company.
If you want the TL;DR, read Kurt Wagner’s Threads thread.
Kylie Robison
Elizabeth Lopatto
A cautionary tale about donating to anons, starring Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey donated 14 Bitcoins to Nostr’s anonymous founder in 2022. That founder is Giovanni Torres Parra, according to Business Insider. Parra is a devotee of “far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho,” who “claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses.”
Andrew J. Hawkins
