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Bitcoin is like a poetry, can bring a sea change in the world: Jack Dorsey

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Twitter  CEO Jack Dorsey, who has made absolutely no secret of his love for cyrptocurrency over the years, says  Bitcoin  for him is like poetry. Praising 'The Bitcoin' whitepaper that was published in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto (a name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or the group who developed bitcoin) that outlines what  Bitcoin  is and how it works, Dorsey said he sees ample opportunity for  Bitcoin  to bring about a sea change in the world. The Bitcoin whitepaper is "one of the most seminal works of computer science in the last 20-30 years. Bitcoin is like poetry," he said during an Artificial Intelligence (AI) podcast with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman via The Daily Hodl. "I think it was smart not to do it anonymous, not to do it as a real identity, but to do it as a pseudonym because I think it builds tangibility and a little bit of empathy that this was a human or a set of humans behind it. There's this natural iden...

Good news! Twitter is working on ways to launch 'edit' option for tweets

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Business Standard : Twitteratis have been asking for an edit button for the longest time. But that may still be some time away as the company does not want to "rush it" and will take a considered view of a use case for allowing individuals to make changes to their tweets. "We have been considering edit for quite some time but we have to do the right way. We can't just rush it out. We have to make sure that we are actually solving the predominant reason why people would do it first and foremost and not making something that is distracting or takes anything away from the public record...," Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said. Speaking at a townhall at IIT-Delhi, the top executive said many users have been asking for the edit button because they want to correct mistakes like spelling errors or adding the wrong URL. "...that's a lot more achievable than allowing people to edit any tweet all the way back in time...ultimately, we need to make sure that ...