I appreciate your input and I will definitely take it into account.
Thank you for the compliment (on this being a good initiative)

and as of right now, the time frame for when I'm taking my wordpress and medium postings live is still up in the air.

I want to gain a good amount of feed back on what folks are looking for as to be sure to provide for the demand.
I'm teaching myself HTML/CSS so as to be able to reduce the amount of money I'm putting out to get a domain up and running smoothly.

as time goes on and more followers come to the site, I'll open up donations with 100% transparency (on where the fund are going) and then hit reddit, twitter and here to offer payment to writers.
the reason I'm shying away from asking writers to do this for free is because I believe giving writers incentive to be as non-bias as possible will help me reach my bottomline in accurate reporting of information. I fear that asking for free writers can potentially give way to blockchain dev's paying writers to write bias reviews for money/crypto.