HACKER Q&A
📣 sigmaprimus

Did You hear China is cracking down on crypto? If so how many times?


Just wondering if anyone else noticed what seems to be a coordinated propaganda attack against BTC in the form of multiple articles re-announcing China's anti crypto efforts.

  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
When a big story like that breaks it gets covered by the big newspapers first like the New York Times, goes on the AP newswire, gets covered in the small newspapers, next week it will be talked about in π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ πΈπ‘π‘œπ‘›π‘œπ‘šπ‘–π‘ π‘‘ and π΅π‘™π‘œπ‘œπ‘šπ‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘” π΅π‘’π‘ π‘–π‘›π‘’π‘ π‘ π‘€π‘’π‘’π‘˜.

That's why they call it "The News Cycle".

Consider a case like

https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqKAgKIiJDQkFTRXdvTkwyY3ZNV...

👤 swiley
I’ve been hearing exactly this since I started messing with crypto in 2011.