Solana Changes Twitter Name to Solano After Bitcoin Maxi Jack Dorsey Misspells Chain

Outages and safety ratings might break Solana’s bones, however phrases won’t ever harm it. And Solana has a humorousness.

The Layer-1 blockchain has jokingly renamed itself Solano on Twitter after Jack Dorsey misspelled the cryptocurrency’s identify in a Twitter thread. 

Dorsey, a noted Bitcoin maximalist, has routinely derided all cryptocurrencies and chains moreover Bitcoin as inferior and unreliable. On Friday, the Twitter co-founder announced Block subsidiary TBD’s intention to create Web5, an “further decentralized” platform constructed atop the Bitcoin blockchain to treatment what Dorsey sees as Web3’s failures to guard customers’ privateness and private knowledge. Web3 is shorthand for the following iteration of the web that runs on blockchains.

In articulating the necessity for a so-called “Web5,” Dorsey particularly known as out Web3’s present dependence on blockchains with single factors of failure, resembling Ethereum and Solana. However he misspelled Solana as “Solano.”

An harmless mistake, maybe? Or a schoolyard tactic to demean an enemy whose identify you don’t have the time to recollect? 

Both method, Solana couldn’t go up the chance to show the call-out right into a viral second. 

Shortly after Dorsey’s tweet on Friday, Solana modified its Twitter show identify to Solano. Crypto Twitter shortly seized on the chain’s embrace of Dorsey’s diss, with many now calling it “Solano” to proceed the joke. 

Solana’s co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has turn into identified for not holding again with regards to speaking on behalf of the company.

Solana’s web site nonetheless refers back to the blockchain by its unique identify, however will probably be enjoyable to see how lengthy Solana retains the identify change on Twitter.

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