True... Pretty good point, I guess it doesn't really matter. I think I thought I was cool there for like 10 minutes when we discovered the fact that this Ray character is actually Mike. Carry on... and God Bless you, I didn't even know this community of virgin weirdos sitting on message boards talking about cryptocurrency existed. Cheers to that!

How are you guys getting these all of these messages??? Remind me never to get on your bad side....

Side note: So it's clear that everyone on this forum used to get the shit kicked out of them growing up. I didn't even know people really waste this much time on message boards... I have the awkward feeling you get when your watching someone, they are royally screwing up and you feel embarrassed for them (is that called empathy?). At any rate,  I'm here for one reason...you morons still think that this character Mike Johnson is a real person? I'm crying right now... Two types of people in this world, people that get shit done and lexicographers (people who just use big words). Keep posting fellas, while your doing that your making room for someone out here actually doing something... like this fruitloop you are carrying on about that created a business in cryptocurrency. Shaking my head...

I understand your concerns but we've reported on a plethora of other topics outside of GAW. We reported extensively on SEC involvement with 2.0 companies, we reported extensively on the BFL raid and subsequent court movements, we've reported on things such as Coinjelly, we've reported on a wide range of merchant acceptance and other topics.

It isn't fair to say that Coin Fire covers only GAW things. We've reported on a large selection of items and the GAW posts are no where near the biggest traffic drivers for us.

A lot of people have asked for more transparency and I think we've done a great job of balancing source confidence and documents. We've published a commitment to sharing our editorial and contributor bibles on GitHub, we've shared how we vet sources and really tried to bring some transparency to the space.

We don't take money for articles, we have fully disclosed a large number of things that many of our peers in tech journalism haven't (not bitcoin specific) and have been working to even a greater level of accountability and responsibility. Things take time, we are a small team, we have a limited budget and I was not a journalist by trade prior to this so it will take some learning as well.

We are working pretty hard and diligently to bring ALL of the cryptocurrency news that we can. We don't publish things that are widely reported when possible, we try to keep it to mostly original pieces and we have a large number of stories in the works that aren't GAW related. Some of these stories are in the third or fourth month of investigation and we want to make sure we get everything right.

We are going to keep reporting on the topics that we receive and vet information on, the topics that our readers have asked for and the stories we feel are the most newsworthy. I hate saying keep watching because it seems like an empty promise but we have kept our promises and published materials as we can previously and will keep doing so in the future.

I'm long on reporting the news because I've discovered this is something I am truly passionate about and a space where some disruption is always good