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    Pornhub now accepts tether for model payments

    The world’s biggest porn site now accepts the world’s biggest stablecoin 

    Visitors to Pornhub, which boasted 42 billion visits in 2019, can now pay live webcam models with tether via the Tron wallet, the site announced yesterday. The move follows PayPal’s announcement in November that it would stop supporting payments for the hugely popular pornographic website.

  • PewDiePie and Justin Sun. A perfect storm of hype (via DLive, Tron).
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    Justin Sun’s BitTorrent buys DLive streaming platform

    The Tron founder said that PewDiePie-favored DLive will abandon its Lino blockchain in favor of Tron, used by decentralized peer-to-peer service BitTorrent

    Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun’s decentralized peer-to-peer filesharing network BitTorrent has bought DLive, the blockchain-based livestreaming home of world No. 2 YouTuber PewDiePie.

  • Sean who? (via C-SPAN).
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    Circle sheds another business, three executives

    The blockchain payments firm sold its Circle Trade OTC operation to Kraken, while CFO Naeem Ishaq joined co-CEO Sean Neville in heading for the door

    Six-year-old blockchain payments firm Circle announced on Dec. 17 that it has sold its Circle Trade over the counter (OTC) desk to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. The firm also said in addition to co-CEO Sean Neville—whose departure was announced on Dec. 4—CFO Naeem Ishaq and Chief Legal Officer Gus Coldebella were “transitioning from the company into new adventures befitting their expertise.”

  • No $4.6 million lunch, but at least Justin Sun has PewDiePie
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    Another smackdown for Tron’s Justin Sun

    Chinese social media site Weibo shut the hyper-marketing cryptocurrency mogul’s account, as well as one run by the CMO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance

    Tron CEO Justin Sun’s exuberant marketing skills may have come back to bite him again. And Tron (TRX) coin holders are along for the ride. Sun's Weibo account was shut down on Dec. 12, according to Dovey Wan, a founding partner at venture capital firm Primitive Ventures.