April 23, 2022, 8:30 p.m. Mostly Bitcoin for April 23, 2022 Mostly Bitcoin This Week In Techdirt History: April 17th - 03:09 PM EDT This Week in Apps: Google bans call-recording apps, Snap’s Q1 and BeReal hype - 02:18 PM EDT Twitter to Begin Cryptocurrency Payouts for Creators. This Week's Top Bitcoin and Crypto N... - 12:47 PM EDT Rosie the Riveting: The Stunning Success Story of Fanhouse Founder Rosie Nguyen - 11:19 AM EDT This real estate investor has a side hustle mining more than $110,000 in bitcoin every mon... - 08:45 AM EDT Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? Not really, says a law professor - 07:28 AM EDT Who keeps crypto going? 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If it does, a dominant DeFi pl... - 10:33 AM EDT To defeat Elon Musk, Twitter needs… more NFTs - 10:24 AM EDT NY Fintech Week: Crypto Regulation, Fraud, and Venture Capital - 10:04 AM EDT Times Square will go dark tonight to prove crypto doesn’t have to be bad for the planet - 09:41 AM EDT The Download: Opting out of the crypto hype, and the gig workers resisting oppressive algo... - 09:29 AM EDT Robinhood is back on the offensive with its UK crypto move - 09:14 AM EDT Liquifi is building the “Carta of web3” for companies issuing tokens on the blockchain... - 09:09 AM EDT How Bitcoin Mines Were Airlifted From China to the US - 09:02 AM EDT Criminals Abuse Apple Pay in Spending Sprees - 09:02 AM EDT Michael Saylor says investing in MicroStrategy is the closest you'll get to a bitcoin spot... - 08:19 AM EDT Miami is still trying to figure out what it means to be a crypto capital - 08:12 AM EDT 'Cyber Hell' trailer tells story of the 'Nth Room' abuse case - 08:06 AM EDT The great streaming service shakeup - 07:18 AM EDT Tresorit bolts on E2EE email via a plug-in for enterprise software - 07:13 AM EDT Episode 4: The Russian economy, sanctions and cryptocurrency - 06:49 AM EDT Your Personality, as Explained on Twitter by One Extremely Specific Aspect of Your Childho... - 06:29 AM EDT Apple’s nudity-blurring Messages feature gets international release - 05:59 AM EDT Get lifetime access to 3 e-learning platforms, plus a VPN - 05:29 AM EDT It’s okay to opt out of the crypto revolution - 05:20 AM EDT Bitcoin hovers around $41,000 on three-day rise - 02:00 AM EDT EXPLAINER: How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don't) - 01:05 AM EDT Bitcoin’s new puzzle: How to ditch fossil fuels and go green - 12:18 AM EDT Crusoe Energy Valued at $1.75 Billion For Clean Bitcoin Mining - 08:53 PM EDT U.S. lobs fresh round of sanctions against bitcoin miner and others seen to be aiding Russ... - 08:05 PM EDT Over 30 Million US Adults Will Own Cryptocurrency by Year's End, Forecast Predicts - 07:28 PM EDT Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter? - 07:17 PM EDT Bitcoin Mining Is a Tax on Our Electrical Grid - 06:48 PM EDT Opinion | Bitcoin Mining Is a Tax on Our Electrical Grid - 06:08 PM EDT Bitcoin ETFs Are Coming to Australia - 04:52 PM EDT Apple will soon blur nude photos sent to kids' iPhones - 04:39 PM EDT The technological disruption of bitcoin - 04:22 PM EDT Cryptocurrency firms in latest Russian sanctions targets - 04:21 PM EDT How the Treasury Department Is Cracking Down on Russian Sanction Evasion - 03:53 PM EDT Bitcoin Rallies Near Key Level as ApeCoin Rises on Metaverse Bet - 03:42 PM EDT The crypto regulation problem nobody wants to touch - 01:43 PM EDT Teach yourself crypto in 10 steps with $100 - 01:40 PM EDT A Fossil Fuel Power Plant That Mines Bitcoin Is Fighting to Stay Open - 01:23 PM EDT Crypto Exchange’s New Emoji Looks Like a Swastika and People Are Losing It - 12:26 PM EDT Coinbase unveils its NFT marketplace, challenging OpenSea - 12:18 PM EDT Coinbase’s New NFT Marketplace May Solve Its Growth Problems - 12:01 PM EDT The Download: How AI capitalizes on catastrophe, and the Bitcoin cities of Central America... - 11:19 AM EDT You just read issue #354 of Mostly Bitcoin. 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