Episode notes
Two journalists from leading cryptocurrency news companies (The Block and CoinDesk) guests on this livestream. They share their experiences covering bitcoin mining, opinions on why other non-crypto-native journalists frequently struggle to understand and accurately report on mining, and the future of media and mining. Follow them on Twitter.
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✔️ David Pan: https://twitter.com/DavidPan_1
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✔️ Zack Voell: https://twitter.com/zackvoell
✔️ Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:39 - Introduction
5:55 - Why report on mining?
13:20 - The learning curve of mining
20:24 - Interacting with miners as a journalist
28:24 - Why is mining coverage difficult?
37:48 - Examples of bad mining journalism
44:35 - Mining data sources
54:01 - Interesting areas of mining coverage
58:10 - Advice for understanding mining
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