No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't about Bitcoin

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Brief:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Adjustment to bank profits in anticipation of growing debt delinquency </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lowest decrease in jobless claims since March </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A boost in retail spending </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s main discussion: The Great Twitter Hack, feat. Dr. Tom Robinson, chief scientist and co-founder of Elliptic </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wednesday, at around 2:15 p.m. EDT, prominent Crypto Twitter accounts started sharing a similar message about a</span> <a href= "https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">bitcoin</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">giveaway. A couple of hours later, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were saying they were feeling generous and wanting to give bitcoin away. A couple more hours and every verified blue check mark account on Twitter was taken down. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was an attack with massive implications, if not much monetary gain. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode NLW breaks down:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What happened</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which accounts were impacted</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How much BTC was transferred </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The narrative battle of “bitcoin scam” vs. “Twitter hack”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why it might have been a state-sponsored attack</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the real intention might have been to discredit Twitter </span></li> <li style="font-weight: