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#57: 🏓 Crypto vs. Journalism + An interview w/ Erik Townsend (Macro Voices)

Episode Summary

Steemit layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter. CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises. Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto

Episode Notes

👋 STEEMIT (STEEM) layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter

💸 CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises

🗞 A study shows the media coverage of Bitcoin tipped from mostly positive to mostly negative in 2017

🏦 Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto

Reading:

• Beyond Blockchain: The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of Digital Currency (Erik Townsend, 2018)

• Steemit Lays Off 70% of Its Staff, Citing Crypto Bear Market

• “I had to borrow money to pay my rent”: Civil’s tokenomics has left some of its journalists wondering where their salary is (Nieman Labs)