Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: A look at Binance’s early and rapid growth, aided by the haze of regulatory uncertainty, and how the company may have blown its chance to rule crypto post-FTX  —  The exchange that looked best placed to benefit from last year’s collapse of FTX has instead found itself beset by regulatory setbacks Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Analysis: X adds a five-second delay on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Elon Musk often attacks  —  The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Binance plans to shut down its fiat-to-crypto service Binance Connect, formerly known as Bifinity, that supported payment methods including Visa and Mastercard  —  The service was rolled out in March last year, in an effort to make traditional financial companies “crypto-ready.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: GOP Representative Don Bacon says the FBI told him on August 14 that Chinese spies hacked into his email accounts when other Microsoft accounts were breached  —  Rep. Don Bacon said he was told of the hacking Monday; he pledged to ‘work overtime’ to win passage of an aid package for Taiwan Lees verder op Tech Meme