Friday, April 27, 2018

There is no consensus in the cryptocurrency community when it comes to journalistic standards


  The Ethereum community is furious after Coindesk, a major cryptocurrency publication, published an article on the controversial Ethereum proposal, EIP999. Coindesk reported that the proposal has caused infighting among the Ethereum community and it might lead to a blockchain split soon. This did not go well with the Ethereum community, especially with Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who accused it of sensationalism. A whole new debate on journalistic ethics was started after Buterin took to Twitter to criticize the publication. 2. Their coverage of EIP 999 was terrible. They published a highly sensationalist article claiming the chain would split, when…

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