Mike Carson, a programmer and domain entrepreneur, acquired the Friendster domain and trademarks, launching an iOS app to revive the defunct social media platform. He paid $20k in Bitcoin plus a $9k/year ad-revenue domain to secure friendster.com. The new Friendster targets users fatigued by modern social media.
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Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
A programmer pays $20k in Bitcoin to resurrect Friendster as an iOS app, betting on a market of users exhausted by algorithmic social media.
Monday, April 27, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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