Twitter CEO Asks What Should be Done with @Bitcoin Account in Private Message

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The @Bitcoin Twitter account was a prized piece of social media real estate. When its owner appeared to side with peer-to-peer electronic cash in the form of Bitcoin Cash, BTC maximalists became enraged, obsessed with capturing it.

There was a real, lasting campaign mounted against it, and that's not just another lame crypto conspiracy theory.

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TL;DR: After years of complaining about censorship and related techniques employed against the @Bitcoin account on Twitter, it appears more direct evidence has emerged. In a now-deleted exchange, analyst Zack Voell, of purported objective and transparent research outfit Messari, mistakenly disclosed a private conversation. Voell asks CEO Jack Dorsey to “end” the @Bitcoin handle, to which Dorsey responds, “What do you recommend we do with it?” CoinSpice reached out to @Bitcoin, asking for reaction.

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