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Elon Musk claims he’s buying Manchester United in shock announcement amid Twitter legal battle
ELON MUSK has dropped another bombshell – claiming he’s buying Manchester United.
The 51-year-old made the shock announcement on Twitter late on Tuesday night.
Manchester United are owned by the Glazer family, who also run the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
It was unclear whether the Tesla CEO was serious about his bid to buy the Premier League club.
Man Utd are one of the biggest sports teams in the world but have fallen on hard times in recent years.
They haven’t won the league since 2013 and their fans have protested many times against the owners.
The club are still a commercial powerhouse and valued around £4billion – just shy of $5billion.
Musk tweeted on Tuesday night: “Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome.”
To add to the confusion, Musk’s tweet was a direct reply another of his posts about politics.
The initial tweet read: “To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!”
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Musk, 51, faces a fiery legal battle against Twitter for dramatically pulling out of a $44billion buyout.
It’s been a whirlwind few months for Musk and Twitter, as the billionaire decided to pull out of the deal in a dispute over fake account bots.
The entrepreneur believes there are far more bots on Twitter than officials claim and accuses them of not providing enough information to settle his purchase.
Unhappy with the backtracking, bosses have decided to take Musk to court.
Lawyers for both sides will go head-to-head in Delaware Chancery Court starting on October 17 and continuing for five days.
Twitter’s team had requested to begin the trial as early as September to prevent Musk from further disparaging the company.
Musk wanted things to start in February 2023, claiming a “warp speed” trial is an attempt to derail his argument the platform is cluttered with spambots.
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The reaction of Crypto Twitter to the Alleged Tornado Cash Dev
The wider crypto community has erupted on Twitter following the news of an alleged Tornado Cash developer’s arrest in the Netherlands.
- News of the Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) arresting a “suspected” Tornado Cash developer is making waves on social media, with the crypto community and privacy advocates decrying the move as a declaration of war on those who simply write code.
- “I’m short of words. I’m short of breath. They detained him for writing code. Writing code. These terrorist organizations called traditional nations must be dismantled,” wrote Luis Cuende, the co-founder of Aragon, an open-source software project that helps projects manage decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO)
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- Daniel Buchner, who works on decentralized identity solutions, added that arresting a developer for being part of a project that was allegedly used by bad actors “transcends Ethereum and applies to any decentralized system.”
- “It’s an overt attack on human rights and casts a chilling effect over developers of open source software. Authoritarians who perpetrate human rights violations should be repelled by any and all means necessary,” wrote Buchner.
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- “Welcome to the war on code,” stated Cobie, a prominent Twitter personality and co-host of the “UpOnly” podcast
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— @cobie
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- Tom Robinson, the chief scientist at blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, shared a similar view, saying that with the arrest of a Tornado Cash developer, “the discord between decentralized financial protocols and law enforcement starts to play out.”
- “As others have asked — is this the start of the War on Code?” asked Robinson.
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Legal implications of Tornado Cash sanctions
- Tornado Cash, which obfuscates the origin of Ethereum transactions by pooling together large numbers of transactions and mixing them to prevent them from being tracked on the public blockchain, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday — along with a slew of addresses associated with the service.
- Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer and head of policy at Blockchain Association, weighed in on the government’s move, saying that he spent the whole week looking into the sanctions imposed on Tornado Cash and “haven’t heard a satisfying justification yet.”
- “The main argument is ‘criminals used it a lot.’ Okay, but they use everything law-abiding citizens do. Where’s the line? How slippery is this slope? The uncertainty is a step back,” replied crypto researcher Noah Ruderman, adding that the whole thing is likely to be about surveillance issues.
- “If you ever get ‘too good’ at disrupting surveillance, internal pressure will come from foreign policy and national security interests to shut it down,” said Ruderman.
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- “Arresting cryptographers for writing software is the end of credibility for the west. Bad move. Worse timing. Naive,” wrote Simon Taylor, head of strategy at fraud prevention and compliance infrastructure provider Sardine.
- As for what’s next, only time will tell.
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