Obviously they are paid advertisements. We also stated clearly we were starting a paid advertising campaign on slack and elsewhere quite a few times. Why on earth would multiple outlets write the exact same article? I didn't think anyone would be confused, but our media expert told me the correct term is press release, and media pick up for additional publications. She has worked for major corps, this is industry standard stuff here. Nothing unusual. A press release is information sent and published. This is almost always paid all the time. We used the well know firm Bitcoinprbuzz. http://bitcoinprbuzz.com

So the reality is, look at those 100 other Bitcoin companies, they used the exact same PR company. We used them because they have a solid reputation.