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So I've been a bit conflicted lately. I enjoy Bitcoin Magazine, their earn app, and resources, but their editorial standards seem a bit on tbe amateur end.

I understand to err is human, and mistakes will happen. But I see just too many making it to "print" for what's supposed to be one of the go-to publications in this space.

Back in college, I worked at the school paper. I almost lost that barely paying job because a headline in my section had a typo. Fortunately the copy editor took responsibility for it. Point being, that student paper 20 years ago (ugh) had higher standards than this professional periodical.

And now, the receipts...

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This was a lengthy article so I wouldn't be up in arms about a grammatical error or two, but this is a blatent factual error. Even if this was an opinion piece, a copy editor should have caught and corrected this.

For the non-Americans in the room, the Democrats actually control the Senate right now.

Next, an article about Sweden (as the headline indicates), but the deck tells a different story.

This one's a bit nitpicky, but I'd be remiss not to address it. While there is no consensus on what the English demonym for El Salvador is, this magazine has yet to oand on their own standard.

But the real reason I bring this up is not so much for the lack of standardization, but that 2/3 of these are not correct.

Yes, I know I just said there's no consensus on this, but there is a short list of generally accepted demonyms. Those are:

1. Salvadoran

2. Salvadorean

3. Salvadorian

Note the lack of "El".

All too often, though, the magazine seems to land on "El Salvadorian".

But if we query Cambridge and Merriam-Webster for Bitcoin Magazine's apparent demonym of choice, we come up dry.

I might have even let this slide, but as you all probably know, El Salvador has been coming up A LOT in the Bitcoin world lately. Not only should we expect a publication to have standards on relevant topics, but we should also expect those standards to be correct.

Imagine if a paper called British citizens "United Kingdomers"or called the Danish "Denmarkians". We would know what they meant, but we would also know these are not the correct words.

Today, we have conflicting pronouns. And not in the culture war/gender sense, but rather 2nd vs 3rd person. Is this sentence talking to or about boomers? The world may never know.

Today we're taking issue with stylized brand names. Specifically, "ego death capital".

At first glance, you might think this is a typo. I did. While I'm aware of the company, I've only ever read about it news publications. Until I visited theor site today, I had no idea they stylized their company name in all lower case letter.

This isn't unusual. Plenty of brands do this. Adidas perhaps being chief among them.

But the issue here is Bitcoin Magazine's lack of standards and style guide.

Two articles earlier this year capitalized the firm's name as one would expect with a proper noun.

Meanwhile, this article back in December used the lower case stylized version:

Now, obviously the editors at Bitcoin Magazine can choose whichever version they want. The issue is consistency. Inconsistent standards like this can be mistaken for, well, mistakes. And if they've overlooked this, then what else have they overlooked? Is this a reliable publication?

*land on their own...