Why Mainstream Media Gets Bitcoin Mining Wrong
Channel: Compass Mining
Date: 2021-09-10

This is an episode of Compass Live hosted by Compass Mining. In this livestream, Compass discusses the seemingly constant challenges facing mainstream media outlets that cover bitcoin mining. 

Two journalists from leading cryptocurrency news companies (The Block and CoinDesk) guests on this livestream. They share their experiences covering bitcoin mining, opinions on why other non-crypto-native journalists frequently struggle to understand and accurately report on mining, and the future of media and mining. 👤 Follow them on Twitter. 

✔️ Wolfie Zhao: https://twitter.com/WolfieZhao
✔️ David Pan: https://twitter.com/DavidPan_1

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✔️ Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley

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🎥 TIMESTAMPS:

0:39 - Introduction
5:55 - Why report on mining? 
13:20 - The learning curve of mining 
20:24 - Interacting with miners as a journalist
28:24 - Why is mining coverage difficult? 
37:48 - Examples of bad mining journalism 
44:35 - Mining data sources
54:01 - Interesting areas of mining coverage
58:10 - Advice for understanding mining

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