On July 15, a small, Nevada-based energy company called Black Rock Petroleum announced a deal that, if it actually happens––and that's the biggest of ifs––would relocate the lion's share of the Bitcoin mining industry fleeing China to the oil-rich Alberta province in Canada. At today's "B Word Conference," Bitcoin fans Elon Musk of Tesla and Jack Dorsey of Square will doubtless renew their calls for the industry to go green. The Alberta tie-up would do the reverse, since all of the production transplanted from China would run on a signature energy offering from Alberta, natural gas.
Elon Musk wants Twitter to be a free speech town square by daysall April 18, 2022 0 SHARES Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter is a public town square where there are few restrictions on what people can or can’t say on the Internet. But the utopian ideal envisioned by the Tesla CEO ceased to exist long ago and doesn’t take into account what’s happening in the real world, tech executives, Twitter employees and Silicon Valley insiders say. As Musk seeks a $43 billion hostile takeover bid for Twitter, critics say his ambition for what the platform should be — a largely unpoliced space rid of censorship — is naive, would hurt the company’s growth prospects and would render the platform unsafe. Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have spent billions of dollars and employed armies of people to create and enforce policies to reduce hate speech, misinformation and other toxic communication that degrades public discourse. In doing so, they’ve provoked the ire not o...
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