#YouTube News

Brave (BAT) CEO Hints at Doing Away With the YouTube App-In Browser for Mobile

June 9, 2020 by Dalmas Ngetich at Altcoins

YouTube, a video-sharing platform, has been repeatedly accused of purging crypto-related content. With increasing policing, creators are actively searching for alternatives. If a June 8, 2020, reply by Brendan Eich--the CEO of Brave, is anything to go by, the privacy-focused browser is currently designing a service to disintermediate and mash-up content...

Google Reverses MetaMask Mobile App Ban from Play Store

January 2, 2020 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Blockchain

Ethereum wallet platform MetaMask is now back on Play Store after Google reversed its earlier decision to suspend the app from its Android store. The move marks another 180 for Google as the tech company seemingly continues to blunder its way through administering crypto-related services. MetaMask Back on Google Play...

YouTube Claims it Deleted Bitcoin Videos in Error

December 27, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Carl from The Moon (@themooncarl), a crypto-YouTuber revealed that the world's largest video-sharing website YouTube has made an official response after wilfully taking down his crypto-related videos. Nonetheless, @themooncarl says he can never trust centralized platforms again, instead, he will move his audience to a decentralized and censorship-resistant ecosystem, according...

YouTube Launches Attack on Bitcoin, Allegedly Deleting Crypto-Linked Content

December 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Chris Dunn (@ChrisDunnTV), Chico Crypto (@ChicoCrypto), and BTC Sessions (@BTCsess), three popular YouTubers that have been creating highly informative and educating Bitcoin (BTC) related content on YouTube for several years now, have taken to Twitter to lament that the platform is now flagging their content, labeling it as “harmful and...

Hackers Now Stealing People’s Bitcoin via YouTube Videos

May 31, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Crypto thieves are now embedding Qulab, the information-stealing and clipboard hijacking Trojan in YouTube videos promoting a fake Bitcoin generator tool, in a bid to steal victims’ bitcoin and other virtual currencies, according to a report by BleepingComputer on May 29, 2019. Hackers LaunchYouTube Bitcoin Trojan Per sources close to...

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Former Mozilla Executive Accuses Google Of Sabotage

April 19, 2019 by Alex Lielacher at Business, News, Tech

Jonathan Nightingale, a tech professional who formerly worked at Mozilla, has made detailed allegations that technology giant Google has been sabotaging Firefox, Mozilla’s browser. Nightingale claims Google has been acting in this manner for years in order to provide Google Chrome with an advantage. The Intricate Relationship The connection between...

PewDiePie Partners with Blockchain-based Platform DLive

April 10, 2019 by Neil at Blockchain, Business, News

Many content creators have championed cryptocurrency or blockchain in general, but there hasn’t been much traction with regards to high-profile creators moving to a blockchain-based platform rather than YouTube or Twitch, the two biggest platforms for content creators in the world. That has since changed, as one of the world’s...

15 Crypto Youtubers You Should Consider Following

Top 15 Cryptocurrency YouTubers you Should Consider Watching

September 15, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, Cryptocyclopedia, Ethereum, Finance, Investment

YouTube is more than just a source of entertainment. The video streaming platform has evolved into an important vehicle through which people across the globe acquire new information. It is especially popular as a learning tool because people prefer to learn from their peers or those they feel they can...

YouTube Faces Heat after Court Observes its Failure to Identify Fraud Propagated by Bitconect

July 8, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Crime, News, Regulation

Legal proceedings are fast gaining traction several months after the infamous cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme Bitconnect was shut down in January 2018. YouTube to Testify Against Bitconnect In the latest development, video-streaming platform YouTube has been added as a defendant in a class action lawsuit against Bitconnect, as observed in a...

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DTube: Steemit User Builds Foundations of a Decentralized YouTube

August 23, 2017 by Nigel Dollentas at Blockchain, Entertainment, News

DTube, the foundation for a decentralized YouTube, is built upon the STEEM blockchain. STEEM was selected for numerous reasons, detailed in the August 11 announcement post made on Steemit by the user @heimindanger. Containing similar features like its bigger brother that the video sharing website is based off, DTube is...