Quote from: nanobrain on September 02, 2016, 03:00:37 AM

Quote from: opennux on September 02, 2016, 02:37:06 AM

Quote from: nanobrain on September 02, 2016, 01:37:25 AM

Yes, that's all good.

But believe me, the sensationalist pieces will follow -- that's not being either pessimistic or contrarian, simply experienced with the print medium. Its the obvious angle for editors to spice up a dry tech/economics story.

In some ways its not a problem, it simply reflects the same rite of passage BTC went through -- and of course it does mean a lot of writers are going to have volte face on how they describe BTC (ie they sold it to the masses as anonymous but hey turns out it isn't).

I wonder if the smart editor would pick a different angle. I mean, what bitcoin went through has been done so many times now. It's really beating a dead horse, and I just wonder if that's a good sell for a news-outlet. If I was an editor that only had page-views / newspaper sales and a happy board in mind, then I*m not even sure I'd choose that whole approach and sell again. But I am giving them too much credit...

Smart editors....ha ha ha

"If it bleeds, it leads"....similarly sex, crime and drugs get eyeballs.

Also, most editors are in thrall to their proprietors' political views/ambitions. This (XMR) is low hanging fruit for rightwing news outlets.

Way, way too much credit

My point is: a tsunami of these stories is swelling on the horizon but don't worry, in the long run it will be good for XMR.

The prevailing tenor of the stories on this are likely to be
"We used to think that Bitcoin was the bad money, because crimes, but now we see that it is Monero which is soo much worse"
This ends up being good press mentions for both XBT and XMR.

I maintain that the main market for XMR in the long run is the multinational corporation and the banks. Those are the biggest crime syndicates there are. The DNM stuff is just a proving ground for the banksters.