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Elon Musk's X removes ‘criminal’ crypto account after backlash
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter back in 2022, he famously remarked, "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app." Of late, the old bird's chirps have begun to sound like a birdsong to the crypto community. But community members have found some of the chords to be dissonant. Last week, X product head Nikita Bier announced that the social media platform will soon launch Smart Cashtags. It is a feature that allows users to tag specific assets, including crypto assets. A few days later, Bier announced a revision of X's developer API policies to disallow apps like information finance (InfoFi) ... (full story)