Friendster, the proto-social network that beat MySpace and Facebook to market in 2002 and then stopped operating in 2018, has a new owner with a strange plan for it. Mike Carson paid roughly $30,000 for the domain. The deal was $20,000 in Bitcoin plus another domain that throws off about $9,000 a year in ad revenue. — Read the rest
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