And the Black Belt in Bitcoin News Plagiarism Goes To Cointelegraph

And the Black Belt in Bitcoin News Plagiarism Goes To Cointelegraph

Last Saturday, I managed to talk to a member of the Ghost Security group about ISIL and whether or not they use bitcoin in funding their operations. That article did quite well and was backlinked to by many mainstream news portals including Softpedia News, the polish news site Wykop and others. However, Cointelegraph opted to plagiarize the article and rewrite the same story without even thinking about backlinking to the original article written by me. Nina Lyon, Cointelegraph's plagiarism pro, claims that she "emailed" Ghost Security Group and surprisingly enough, she asked them one of....


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