Bitcoin journalism is fucked.
I started The Rage because I'm tired of investors and advertisers telling me what to do for below minimum wage compensation.
What we need are publications willing to let journalists investigate the crap out of the companies, representatives and people enabling the building of surveillance tech behind the scenes.
What we get are publications selling out to corporations, startups and politicians writing public relations puff pieces to keep their returns on track. The point of journalism is to hold power to account, not to become its bedfellow.
There is no lack of talented, experienced, investigative journalists covering bitcoin. The problem is that they write what the powers that be don't want you to hear – so many are out of a job, dabbling away at the next press release for mainstream media, or doing below-minimum wage contract work to pay the bills.
I'm incredibly overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we've been getting for The Rage. In just 8 weeks we've scooped major publications and drove discussions around AML, Samourai and Tornado Cash together with your help. We've even made enough to cover operations with almost 400$ raised, thanks to all the zappers out there.
But here's the thing. I didn't come here to write a good piece every once in a while leaving stories untold left and right because I can't afford to focus on investigations full time. I came here to fuck up the financial surveillance complex. That's why The Rage now needs your help.
We're trying to raise 0.25BTC so we can contract the best investigative journalists in the Bitcoin space to tell the stories that major publications can't afford to print.
If you value your financial freedom, please consider donating via our Geyser fund. We cannot do this without your help.
https://geyser.fund/project/therage
Thanks for your work!
Just a thought, perhaps, to help motivate donations and focus, you could release specific story bounties?? Not ideal, but at least it would be crowdfunded in a public way then
I'm here for the irony of AI bubble pop being filled by ASICS ( due to excess energy investment/generation)
Don't forget the arbitrage between AI load and ASIC load ... only one of these is "instant" on/off grid balancing
There seems to have been a deliberate smear campaign... Perhaps, an actual assassination would make him too much of a martyr (for bitcoin and his country/region)??
*by explicitly/publicly stacking hash and sats (besides merely feeding war machines)
PS the western elite could have sued for peace long ago by buying bitcoin ( and BRICS also!)
Wen / where bitcoin citadel?! Wen / where el Salvador 2.0?!
Somewhat agree, but as you know, bitcoin can't be nuked... For instance, if a large country like Canada boarded the bitcoin train before it picks up speed, it would be difficult for even the US to suppress it (much like it not being a trivial task for Russia to bring Ukraine to capitulation--tho slight difference as there is a veiled nuclear threat towards Russia)
stop trying to [immanentize the eschaton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton), bro
I don't think jpow is on here, bro :)
Thanks!
That's only 10 ounces... A month
Lakota Sioux to announce bitcoin as their standard?!
The momentum of this neocon freight train ain't changing... There may yet be some influence as to where it will go off the tracks and come to rest though
Of course, how to make Forbes "pay" for continuing with egregious lies?! (Don't feel compelled to answer, good sir)
Haha, not as notorious as energy waste
(doesn't Quebec hydro alone still dump more over generated energy than bitcoin consumes ... And, on top of that, they have moratoriums on bitcoin mining there... Clown world in action)
And yet, when caught with their pants down, they will cry, "its all bitcoins fault"... Will they attempt a fork at that point?!
But aren't they gradually replacing those IMF loans with bitcoin bonds