Snowden to Musk: ‘I Take Payment in Bitcoin'; Big Short Investor Says Audits of Exchanges like Binance and FTX Are ‘Meaningless,' and More — Week in Review

Ahead of the holidays and new year, the former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor known to the world as a staunch privacy advocate and whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has offered to step up as the new CEO of Twitter after current “Chief Twit” Elon Musk has said he is stepping down.