{"id":60894,"date":"2022-05-02T19:20:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60894"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:58:59","slug":"mark-cuban-proposes-twitter-use-dogecoin-to-fight-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/mark-cuban-proposes-twitter-use-dogecoin-to-fight-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban proposes Twitter use Dogecoin to fight spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Mark Cuban outlined a plan to combat spam and fraud on Twitter using Dogecoin (DOGE). The idea was supported by Billy Markus, co-founder of the meme cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i like it<\/p>\n<p>i like it a lot<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillyM2k\/status\/1520633946794455040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On May 1, Marc Andreessen published a screenshot showing a user impersonating him offering a fake cryptocurrency giveaway. The co-founder of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz asked which algorithm could track such content.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;Humans,&#8217; wrote Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Humans<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1520603813492580359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a solution, Cuban proposed adding a feature obliging every user to stake 1 DOGE to publish tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone would be able to flag messages as spam \u2014 if the complaint is confirmed, the authors of the complaints would share the violator&#8217;s stake.<\/p>\n<p>To publish new tweets, the spammer would have to stake 100 DOGE. If the complaint is not upheld, the author would lose their 1 DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>In late April, Twitter&#8217;s leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-to-buy-twitter-for-44-billion-as-dogecoin-jumps-24\">agreed to sell the social network to Elon Musk for $44 billion<\/a>. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2022. Musk wants <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-explains-why-he-wants-to-buy-twitter\">to create an &#8216;inclusive arena for freedom of speech&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move was supported by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-ceo-hails-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-as-a-victory-for-free-speech\">Brian Armstrong<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-backs-elon-musks-twitter-takeover\">Vitalik Buterin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Musk proposed reducing the price of Twitter Blue and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-proposes-paying-for-twitter-blue-with-dogecoin\">to pay for the premium service in Dogecoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Mark Cuban outlined a plan to combat spam and fraud on Twitter using Dogecoin (DOGE). The idea was supported by Billy Markus, co-founder of the meme cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[99,1551,40],"class_list":["post-60894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin","tag-mark-cuban","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60896,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60894\/revisions\/60896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}