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Jack Dorsey's Block Tumbles After Short-Seller Hindenburg's Report

Shares of Jack Dorsey's fintech payments company Block (SQ) are sinking after being the subject of the latest attack from notable short-seller Hindenburg Research. The company accuses Block of "wildly" overstating user counts while understating customer acquisition costs. "The Hash" panel discusses the report and the alleged revelations about Block's business operations.

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Finance

Le bloc de Jack Dorsey chute de 17 % après le rapport du vendeur à découvert Hindenburg

L'entreprise accuse Block d'avoir « exagérément » surestimé le nombre d'utilisateurs tout en sous-estimant les coûts d'acquisition de clients.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

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Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Service Provider to Make Lightning More Reliable

TBD, a division of Jack Dorsey's financial-technology company Block, has launched a new business entity named “c=” that focuses on improving liquidity and routing on the Lightning Network. CoinDesk Editor at Large Christie Harkin breaks down its significance to Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling system.

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Block, la société de Jack Dorsey, lance un fournisseur de services pour rendre Lightning plus fiable

La nouvelle entité, baptisée « c= », vise à améliorer la liquidité et le routage sur le réseau Lightning de Bitcoin. Son nom fait référence à la vitesse de la lumière dans la célèbre équation d'Einstein E=MC².

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Les revenus Bitcoin de Block au quatrième trimestre ont chuté de 7 % sur un an pour atteindre 1,83 milliard de dollars

Pour l'ensemble de l'année, les revenus Bitcoin de Block ont ​​diminué de 29 % par rapport à 2021 en raison de la chute du prix du Bitcoin, a déclaré la société.

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How to Keep Control of Your Crypto

Live from Las Vegas at CES 2023, CoinDesk Web3 & Learn Managing Editor Toby Bochan takes a look at crypto wallets and other self-custody tech designed to make users masters over their digital money so they don’t have to trust exchanges. Speakers include: Block Bitcoin Wallet Lead Max Guise, Casa CEO Nick Neuman, Coinbase Director of Engineering Chintan Turakhia and Bitski Head of Product Jasmine Xu.

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Finance

Block Manager voit l'auto-conservation comme l'avenir de la Crypto après FTX

La société de paiement travaille sur un produit permettant aux clients de détenir directement des Bitcoin .

Block plans to introduce a digital wallet to make it easy for users to hold their own cryptocurrencies. (Block)

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How Jack Dorsey’s Block Is Approaching Crypto

Max Guise, Bitcoin Wallet Lead at Block, speaks with CoinDesk's Christine Lee at CES 2023 about what the Jack Dorsey-led company's plans are for crypto and the future of self-custody in the wake of FTX's collapse.

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Bitcoin’s Biggest Milestones in 2022

CoinDesk Technology reporter Frederick Munawa discusses Bitcoin's major achievements this year, as outlined by the Bitcoin Operations Technology Group. The paper covers dozens of milestones: from ambitious scaling proposals such as validity rollups and the Taro test software, to captivating events like the establishment of a Bitcoin legal defense fund by Block CEO Jack Dorsey and a controversial Lightning Network Daemon (LND) bug that left part of the Lightning Network in disarray.

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Jack Dorsey's Block Invests in East African Bitcoin Miner Gridless

Gridless, a bitcoin mining company helping generate new sources of energy in East African rural communities, secured $2 million in a seed investment round led by bitcoin VC firm Stillmark and Block, a payments company led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. "The Hash" hosts discuss what this means for the global bitcoin mining industry.

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