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The steady upward price trajectory of leading cryptocurrencies from mid-March onward cooled a bit this week amid news of incoming regulation in both the U.K. and U.S.

But regulation wasn’t at the forefront of crypto Twitter this week, where the biggest news was that Dogecoin-pumping and Bitcoin-HODLing Tesla CEO Elon Musk had bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter on Monday. The price of Dogecoin rallied 9% following the announcement.

Musk’s position in Twitter is hardly small, either, as Bloomberg's Tim Stenovec pointed out.

Musk now owns more Twitter stock that any other single investor, including Vanguard and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. $TWTR https://t.co/GpwpCmalks — Tim Stenovec (@timsteno) April 4, 2022

Nearly 24 hours later, Twitter CEO Paral Agrawal welcomed Musk to Twitter’s board.

I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board. — Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022

Twitter submitted an SEC filing naming Musk a “Class II Director” until his term ends in 2024. The language of the filing appears to guard against a possible takeover of the company during that span, as business journalist Scott Nover pointed out, though Musk can still increase his stake.

Twitter gave @elonmusk a board seat so he won’t take over the company. pic.twitter.com/4vyBEogT1W — Scott Nover (@ScottNover) April 5, 2022

Twitter has been pivoting toward blockchain technology since at least November, when the microblogging platform first announced it had established a team to look at “crypto, blockchain, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.” But nothing's really happened so far, unless you count the platform rolling out NFT profile pictures for Twitter Blue subscribers in certain regions in January.

Funnily enough, Musk was among the first to criticize NFT PFPs. When the feature launched, he tweeted, “This is annoying,” before arguing that tackling the abundance of crypto-related spambots was a higher priority.

Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022

Clearly, Musk has big ideas about both crypto and Twitter, and his insights could benefit a platform looking to capitalize on the nascent crypto industry. But before that, Musk wanted to know whether users wanted an "edit" button.

Do you want an edit button? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022

Musk’s poll may be binding, as Agrawal stressed when he urged voters to “vote carefully” since their choices had “consequences.”

The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully. https://t.co/UDJIvznALB — Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao replied to Musk’s poll: “Getting rid of spam is probably higher priority.”

'Might go shopping'

On Wednesday, 30-year-old Terra CEO Do Kwon had a chill day around the house. By the time he’d got around to his vacuuming, Terra’s Bitcoin coffers had swollen to $1.6 billion

Today I: - Watered my plants

- Wrote some emails

- Bought 230M in $BTC

- vacuumed the house

- had some mcdonalds Now off to walk the dog 🤝 — Do Kwon 🌕 (@stablekwon) April 6, 2022

He's been steadily buying up Bitcoin in bursts since January with the aim of increasing Terra’s BTC treasury to $10 billion, which would help to ensure Terra’s algorithmic stablecoins keep their peg.

Just this morning, Kwon bought another 4129.99 BTC, increasing Terra’s stash to about $1.7 billion as of this writing.

Feeling cute, might go shopping later 🧡 — Do Kwon 🌕 (@stablekwon) April 10, 2022

Elsewhere

Since returning to the helm of Starbucks, Howard Schultz has had to pay attention to the unionization of the brand’s U.S. baristas.

Schultz opposes unionization, and for the last two decades has built up a reputation for actively quashing it through firings and by running up legal bills with union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson.

On Monday, in an address aimed at his employees, Schultz promised them that Starbucks plans to get into NFTs, although details as to how the coffee giant’s crypto pivot would benefit its workers were virtually non-existent.

For those of you praying that I was kidding, here's the video proof. In an address today aimed at unionizing workers, multi-billionaire Howard Schultz revealed that Starbucks is going to get into the NFT business "sometime before the end of this calendar year" pic.twitter.com/Jb2rGjgHj4 — Jordan Zakarin (@jordanzakarin) April 5, 2022

On Wednesday, Los Angeles restaurateur Andy Nguyen teased his Bored & Hungry burger popup in Long Beach. The restaurant is inspired by Nguyen’s Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) acquisitions, most notably his profile picture, for which he paid $267,000 last month.

Did someone say these were just "jpegs?" 🤷🏻‍♂️ it's probably nothing @BoredNHngry pic.twitter.com/fxpqslXCSf — AndyTheNguyen.eth (@AndyTheNguyen) April 6, 2022

Bored & Hungry opened Saturday and is slated to run for 90 days. Verified BAYC NFT holders will get free food, as will Mutant Ape Yacht Club holders.

We are coming down to the wire. Still lots to do before we grand opening tomorrow. This "miracle work" would not happen without our team!! @BoredNHngry pic.twitter.com/4pyz3HUOss — AndyTheNguyen.eth (@AndyTheNguyen) April 8, 2022

And finally, on Thursday, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell announced he was closing the exchange’s global headquarters in San Francisco until further notice. Powell cited frequent criminal harassment of his employees on their commutes, and blamed District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s "catch-and-release program" for the increase in crime.

BREAKING: KRAKEN CEO Jesse Powell @jespow today issued a statement regarding rampant crime in San Francisco and the failures of DA @chesaboudin . pic.twitter.com/7gx7PldQM0 — Richie Greenberg (@richieSF2016) April 7, 2022

A January report from the San Francisco Police Department showed that crime rates, by and large, were up slightly in 2021 from 2020, but still "overall lower ... than pre-pandemic levels."