Mainstream covers stuff, including Bitcoin, that bubbles (or sometimes crashes). Other than that they mostly ignore it.
Huh? Afair CNBC was having roundtable discussions about it.
During the bubble for sure. Every fucking day. Before the bubble, no.
That is precisely when you pump a bubble to drive the price to $1000+ so your Chinese miners can rape it all the way down.
And we've already established the MSM were helping lay the ground work of marketing awareness before the 2013 bubble.
Seems there were also some stories when Bitcoin broke back above $10 again.