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When will people (journalists with a juvenile understanding of systems behind crypto-currencies) start to understand that writing about price fluctuations reall
by arcaster 9y ago
When will people (journalists with a juvenile understanding of systems behind crypto-currencies) start to understand that writing about price fluctuations really isn't valuable as news and offers almost no sentiment whatsoever?...
- mikeash 9y agoThis will happen at the exact moment when people stop clicking on links to these stories.
- binarybits 9y agoCorrect. Also the story took me like an hour to write, so the opportunity cost is low. Here's a 5,000-word explainer I wrote about how Bitcoin works. It took significantly longer than an hour to write. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/how-bitcoin-works/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/how-bitcoin-work...
- Y_Y 9y agoWhen robots start writing those articles for them, e.g. [0]. [0] https://digiday.com/media/washington-posts-robot-reporter-published-500-articles-last-year/ https://digiday.com/media/washington-posts-robot-reporter-pu...
- dentemple 9y ago... have you never read the market section of a newspaper? Market-wide stock corrections usually do get reported upon.
- akhatri_aus 9y agoIts only a 'fluctuation' if it goes back up.