Media Caught Up in Search for Satoshi: Bitcoin in the Headlines
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly analysis of industry media coverage and its impact. Speculation about the identity of bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, reached a new high this week after tech publications Wired and Gizmodo published reports which both pointed to the likelihood that an Australian entrepreneur named Craig S. Wright played a big role in the birth of the digital currency. The potential unmasking caused ripples of excitement across international mainstream media outlets that covered the news of the big reveal and the subsequent police raids and signs of an....
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Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly analysis of industry media coverage and its impact. Boring weeks in bitcoinland are far and few between. Last week's headlines - predominately dominated by the digital currency's dizzying price spike - gave way to a different form of narrative as journalists from the mainstream media sought to discern its meaning and implications. In so doing, the coverage arguably shifted from largely positive articles to more controversial explorations of bitcoin that were sometimes found to be at odds with common consensus among the technology's observers. The....
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. Ever-hungry for product launches and splashy funding rounds, the mainstream media was sent into a frenzy this week as Circle announced the closure of its $50m round and Coinbase confirmed it was expanding across the pond to the UK. Despite seemingly good news for the bitcoin ecosystem, misreporting - and inaccuracies - featured across outlets. Meanwhile, some journalists also questioned the need for substantial funding rounds, given that some startups were not highly concerned with return of....
During the last decade, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have discussed the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day, the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery continues to prevail, and throughout the years there’s been a great number of suspects and self-proclaimed crypto inventors. Halloween is approaching and twelve years ago on October 31, 2008, Bitcoin’s inventor published the cryptocurrency’s introductory white paper. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the pseudonymous person or persons that wrote the white paper and developed the original Bitcoin....
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at bitcoin news, analysing media coverage and its impact. This week was by no means the first time the mainstream media has connected Greece's looming debt crisis to bitcoin. As the country gets to grips with the controversial bailout referendum that will decide the country's future in the eurozone this Sunday, the media has taken its coverage of the digital currency to a whole new level. At the time of publication, a quick Google news search resulted in over 100 articles. Given the country's cashflow restrictions and bank closures, journalists....
Bitcoin in the Headlines is our weekly look at bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. It's the classic philosopher's dilemma, the chicken and egg. Which came first? And how do you make sense of being stuck in that unknowing middle? For the media and the general public, debates in the bitcoin space are often muddled in the same confusion - 'Can you have the blockchain without bitcoin?' 'Is the protocol safe even if bitcoin businesses are not?' and 'Who made this thing anyway and why can't we ask them?'. Such is the struggle of making sense of a technology that seems to have emerged....