The Bitcoin.com forum, one of the most popular forums in the crypto community, has abruptly announced closure. A place for the heated debates and thoughtful cryptocurrency-related discussions, Bitcoin.com’s forum will terminate its services on July 23, 2020. The news was reported by the forum’s administrator in a thread posted on June 24. In the post, the forum admin provided few details about the upcoming closure. The post does not specify the reasons behind the action. Bitcoin.com’s forum is associated with the Bitcoin.com website — one of the oldest and biggest cryptocurrency-related web portals in the world. Backed by early Bitcoin …

On June 18, a user posted a link to a court document that accuses Kik of facilitating the exchange of child porn on the Kin Foundation’s subreddit. The link was then crossposted to Solana’s subreddit. Moderators for both subreddits subsequently removed the posts. Cointelegraph contacted the moderators of both subreddits on June 22, but received no explanation. Solana’s subreddit moderators later deleted Cointelegraph’s public inquiry, as shown by the Reddit anti-censorship tool, Snew. Kik is in the midst of a sex trafficking lawsuit Removeddit is a content retrieval service that caches Reddit posts before they are removed. We can see …

On June 17, the United States Department of Justice issued new recommendations to roll back decades-old protections for online platforms publishing third-party content. Section 230 and internet censorship Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act became law in 1996, as the public was only just coming to welcome the internet into their day-to-day lives. The controversial law freed platforms from legal liability for content from third-parties. The DoJ’s recommendations include ending immunity for content involving child abuse, terrorism and cyberstalking. It also argues that Section 230: “Does not apply in a specific case where a platform had actual knowledge or …

Known for his social media-involved leadership of crypto exchange giant Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, said he disabled Twitter comments on his posts to weed out the scammers. "To better respond and engage," CZ told Cointelegraph he partially disabled the ability for the public to comment on his tweets. "This is a new feature from Twitter," CZ said on June 11. "It seems it’s only rolled out to a small percentage of people." Social media holds crucial in crypto As an industry based primarily on digital technologies, much of the crypto and blockchain community interacts daily on various social …

UPDATE: Bitcoin.com’s account has now been unsuspended and can be accessed. According to YouTube, the channel was “terminated in error.” YouTube has shut down the official channel of cryptocurrency news-focused website Bitcoin.com for “a violation of YouTube's Terms of Service.” As Bitcoin.com executive chairman Roger Ver told Cointelegraph, YouTube notified them about the ban around 2:17AM EST June 13. The account had over 40 thousand subscribers at the time it was suspended. Bitcoin.com then sent an appeal to YouTube within “a few hours”. Two days later, at 8:59 AM EST June 15, Youtube notified Bitcoin.com that their channel had been …

Active Twitter user Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, CEO of crypto exchange giant Binance, explained his use of social media, which has played a key role in his exchange's community engagement. CZ said his Twitter activity is not part of any overarching goal. "It’s really just a way for me to interact with our community, which I budget roughly 20% of my time to," CZ told Cointelegraph. CZ's Twitter game has been strong since Binance's inception CZ said he has given social media this type of attention since the exchange's early days. Binance kicked off its initial coin offering, or ICO, …

Voice, the social media platform by EOSIO creator Block.one, announced that it will launch on July 4. According to a Tweet posted by Voice Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Salah Zalatimo on June 6, the social media platform will be available to readers on U.S. Independence Day, with only registered users able to publish content or engage online. “We had been building towards a big reveal this fall,” said Zalatimo, “but, we simply can't wait any longer. We need to take social back from big tech NOW.” The platform had been in beta testing since Feb. 14. The CEO said registration …

With the coronavirus pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt work-from-home policies, the demand for video conferencing programs appears to have increased. Indeed, by late April, video conference app Zoom was seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, a 50% rise from the 200 million recorded at the start of the month. Amid its growing popularity, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed significant privacy flaws with Zoom. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, even reportedly banned employees from using the software on account of these vulnerabilities. Blockchain projects are now getting into the video conferencing arena, looking to leverage the novel …

Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin, and Gemini exchange founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, expressed their opinions on recent efforts at social media censorship. "I've talked before about the rise of corporations regulating governments but here we have Twitter soft-censoring the U.S. president on the grounds of incitement of violence," Buterin said in a May 29 tweet referencing recent Twitter posts from U.S. President Donald Trump. "This is a major escalation and could be a new chapter in relations between corporations and states," Buterin added. A tangled mess of tweets, executive orders, and events Expectations yesterday saw Trump signing an executive order …

Those in the know expect President Trump to sign a fresh executive order today, imposing greater accountability on social media providers. The order draft, labeled at press time as "Preventing Online Censorship," brings further clarity to social media industry boundaries, ABC News said on May 28. "This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!" Trump tweeted on the morning of May 28. The order follows Twitter fact checking efforts Social media powerhouse Twitter recently flagged certain tweets with a fact-check tag. The platform flagged some of Trump's posts about voting and ballots, pinning a noted under the …

A new kind of cryptocurrency tipbot allows users to pay others to answer their questions on social media, providing a new tool to pool data in the ecosystem. Liser Lee of CCTip told Cointelegraph that the system can help drive engagement or generate expert commentary. It lets users create a Twitter poll and automatically pay anyone who shares it with cryptocurrency, helping a poll gain more exposure and answers. The company is also considering a system pays the poll respondents instead. Other than Twitter, CCTip will also work on Telegram, Discord, WeChat and on Reddit as well. It supports 200 …

Floyx, a Malta-based social media platform for the crypto community, is trying to prevent crypto impersonation scams by developing a novel system. Floyx CEO Kamil Kępiński explained to Cointelegraph that the platform can prevent malicious actors from impersonating firms and projects with a novel account system. As Cointelegraph reported on multiple occasions, scammers commonly try to trick people out of their crypto assets by pretending to be major firms and celebrities. In July 2018, billionaire entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk himself said that he is impressed by the scam accounts: “I want to know who is running the Ethereum scambots! …