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

interruptions And the Safety Ratings You may break Solana’s bones, but words will never hurt her. Solana has a good sense of humor.

The Layer-1 blockchain jokingly renamed itself Solano on Twitter after Jack Dorsey mistyped the name of the cryptocurrency in a Twitter thread.

Dorsey, Note the maximum amount of Bitcoinroutinely mocked all cryptocurrencies and chains besides Bitcoin like poor and unreliable. Friday, co-founder of Twitter Announced Block Affiliate TBD’s Intent to Create Web5, which is an “additionally decentralized” platform built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain to address what Dorsey sees as Web3’s failures to protect users’ privacy and personal data. Web3 is an acronym for Next Iteration of the Internet that runs on blockchains.

In explaining the need for the so-called “Web5,” Dorsey specifically referred to Web3’s current reliance on single-point-of-failure blockchains, such as Ethereum and Solana. But he misspelled Solana as “Solano.”

Maybe an innocent mistake? Or a schoolyard tactic to insult an enemy whose name you don’t have time to remember?

Either way, Solana couldn’t miss the opportunity to turn the call into a viral moment.

Shortly after Dorsey’s tweet on Friday, Solana changed her Twitter show name to Solano. Crypto Twitter soon took over the chain’s embrace in opposition to Dorsey, with many now calling it “Solano” to continue the joke.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has been known for not holding back when it comes to it speak On behalf of the company.

Solana’s website still refers to the blockchain by its original name, but it will be interesting to see how long Solana keeps the name change on Twitter.

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