{"id":798757,"date":"2021-07-17T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/07\/17\/twitter-ceo-announces-new-bitcoin-based-business-named-tbd-for-square\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:25:13","slug":"twitter-ceo-announces-new-bitcoin-based-business-named-tbd-for-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/07\/17\/twitter-ceo-announces-new-bitcoin-based-business-named-tbd-for-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter CEO announces new Bitcoin based business named TBD for Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced to create a new business focused on building an open developer platform for Bitcoin for his financial payments company Square..<\/p>\n<p>Called &#8216;TBD,&#8217; the new business joins existing payments services like Seller, Cash App and Tidal) &#8220;with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permission-less, and decentralised financial services, Dorsey said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our primary focus is #Bitcoin. Its name is TBD,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Doresy said that like its new Bitcoin hardware wallet, the company is going to do this completely in the open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open roadmap, open development, and open source. @brockm is leading and building this team, and we have some ideas around the initial platform primitives we want to build,&#8221; he informed.<\/p>\n<p>Square last month said it is investing $5 million to build an open-source, solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will be a proof-of-concept for a 100 per cent renewable energy Bitcoin mine at scale, with the economics of the build-out &#8212; including operational costs and ROI &#8212; made open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey has already announced to consider making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin for the customers of its digital payments services company Square.<\/p>\n<p>The hardware wallet will be build entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community, he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bitcoin is for everyone. It&#8217;s important to us to build an inclusive product that brings a non-custodial solution to the global market,&#8221; he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced to create a new business focused on building an open developer platform for Bitcoin for his financial payments company Square.. Called &#8216;TBD,&#8217; the new business joins existing payments services like Seller, Cash App and Tidal) &#8220;with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permission-less, and decentralised financial services, Dorsey said in a tweet. &#8220;Our primary focus is #Bitcoin. Its name is TBD,&#8221; he added. Doresy said that like its new Bitcoin hardware wallet, the company is going to do this completely in the open. &#8220;Open roadmap, open development, and open source. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}