The meteoric rise of bitcoin and difficulty in tracing ownership make disclosures from journalists and the experts they quote even more important
2018 will be the year of inadequate bitcoin disclosures. — In April 2013, Farhad Manjoo (then at Slate, now at The New York Times) … Tweets: @econoscribe and @brianchoffman Tweets: Ludwig Siegele / @econoscribe : “Today, if you write about bitcoin, you can't ethically own it, any more than you can own shares directly in companies you write about. Journalists covering this beat should not be directly financially invested in bitcoin going up rather than down.” https://buff.ly/2opwWYo pic.twitter.com/6F5fA1lc3i Brian Hoffman / @brianchoffman : Very interesting editorial on journalism and Bitcoin ownership. Never thought about it until now. http://www.niemanlab.org/...