How International Media Covered Bitcoin Rally
Bitcoin's recent price rally received extensive coverage on various mainstream media outlets. The recent price rally exhibited by Bitcoin took the mainstream media by surprise. While the cryptocurrency community was waiting for it, others didn’t really expect it to happen so soon. Bitcoin, like any other commodity, is driven by demand and supply. In the past few weeks, the demand for Bitcoin has been high due to various economic and political factors across the world. Increased demand from investors looking for alternate financial assets, has driven its price above $900. Two months ago,....
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Former Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Casey has been appointed senior advisor of MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative to help raise bitcoin awareness. The journalist, known for his work with Paul Vigna on The Age of Cryptocurrency and their regular WSJ column BitBeat - which covered developments in the crypto space - will take up his post at the beginning of September. After 23 years in journalism, Casey's change of career is largely due to the transformative potential of digital currencies, he said in a statement.
Synereo is back in the spotlight with another crowdsale, which is being coupled with the release of the alpha model of their decentralized social media platform. The crowdsale has been much covered, and is really nothing new, but their social network and the technology behind it still appear to be widely misunderstood. This is the first of a two-article series designed to change that. Synereo has been around for a little while, and raised the equivalent of $126,000 in their initial AMP crowdsale last year. Since then, they’ve been relatively quiet, and I was surprised to hear they plan to....
Crypto advertising on social media has been a hot topic throughout the year. We’ve covered much of the back and forth both at Bitcoinist and over at our sister network NewsBTC over the years. A prime example of this occurred in recent months Google shifted their cryptocurrency ad policy, in what seemed to show a […]