Hello fellow kids.Yesterday I was reading my country’s most popular newspaper and was greeted with the headline “Hacker demands cryptocurrency!!”. Naturally my interest was grabbed and I went on reading the article that stated “The hacker demands the private and untraceable cryptocurrency Bitcoin”, which is obviously wrong since Bitcoin is a public ledger and every single transaction is recorded and saved for eternity. Mildly annoyed I emailed the author of the article and explained that Bitcoin is in fact not very private, and certainly not untraceable. After a few back and forth with relevant facts the newspaper issued a correction saying Bitcoin is indeed not very private and is traceable.This is what we, the cryptocurrency community, must do every time we see people outside the community reference crypto the wrong way. I urge you all to take a few moments out of your very busy life following shitcoins to correct newspapers and other publications when they simply misinform the public.The result of their misinformation leads to the public associating cryptocurrency with crime, and this must change.Please, pretty please, do this. It does not take long, and we all do benefit from it.
Submitted October 28, 2020 at 09:42PM
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