Jack Dorsey Leaves Twitter Board

Former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has stepped back from the company’s board of directors. The Washington Post reports this.

The departure had been planned as early as November, when he покинул должность главы of the platform. At that time, Dorsey said he would retain this role until the shareholders’ meeting in 2022.

The changes came amid discussions of поглощения Twitter Илоном Маском. The billionaire was not present at the meeting, and the top executives declined to go into the details of the deal.

Dorsey served as chief executive of Twitter until 2008 — his сместили from the post, but remained as chairman of the board. In 2015 he again возглавил Twitter.

He currently runs the payments firm Block (ранее Square). In the first quarter of 2022, BTC sales through the Cash App brought the company $1.73 billion.

In July 2021, Block объявила that it was developing a hardware wallet and a service for storing Bitcoin. Later, Dorsey said the firm was considering the possibility создания устройства для добычи первой криптовалюты.

The top executive also said he was working on an open TBD platform for launching a decentralized Bitcoin exchange based on his payments company. Through a few months he published a link to the white paper.

Recall that the NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet was put up for sale for $48 million. The seller was offered 0.05 ETH ($96.17).

Earlier, Dorsey усомнился about the decentralisation of Web 3.0.

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