CoinSpice is feisty, fun, a crypto news pirate ship sailing seas of awful journalism in the space. Be it legacy news outlets trying to square money’s future with their sure demise, writers clearly on an as-yet-undiscovered autism spectrum, screaming about eating only red meat, or hipster journos rambling blockchain technology applesauce, it’s hard to find reliable sources of information for enthusiasts and investors. We’re the exception.

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Legacy Journalism

Welcome to The Milk Man column, my regular take on things crypto. I am spicy for sure, but I prefer to be on the soothing, milkier side of our ecosystem’s burn. Hopefully readers will find CoinSpice a respite from a polluted space — an increasingly difficult place where it’s hard to find solid reporting.

I’ve spent the better part of the last few years absorbed in everything even tangentially related to cryptographic currency. Readers will no doubt empathize with that rabbit hole experience, as once I did more than discuss digital cash, and actually began using it did I finally understand the fuss. I’ve never looked back. One thing is dramatically of interest to me, however, and that is pushing crypto news in getting folks to stop pontificating.

For example, I personally enjoy Nathaniel Popper at the Old Gray Lady. Dude is a Harvard grad living too near Silicon Valley. That, and he openly admits to never dealing in crypto so as to maintain objectivity. It’s not the mere combination of being a noncoiner and having Ivy League bona fides making his coverage weak, but I do think they hold him back from understanding profound implications.

Only Politically Connected, Credentialed People Matter

The two coincidences work in tandem. He’ll often feature a story where bitcoin is a main culprit, fueling the dastardly Russians in their quest to impact politics in the United States, or how crypto frequently makes the rounds in money laundering capers on its way to terrorism. You get the idea.

Harvard spits out naked conformists. To a graduate, they’re passionate keepers of every intervention, and always advocated couched in progressivism. Banking regulations, regulatory agencies, the expropriation of your paycheck and wealth to employ and enforce them, all of it is necessary and the cost of civilization. They’re doing it for your own good.

Popper views crypto through the lens of power. What are the cops saying about crypto? Political leaders? Wall Street hot shots? Regulators? Those are the people Popper has been told matter, who he has been taught to believe matter, and who he has been trained to believe matter.

CoinSpice is Different

That written, CoinSpice won’t ignore the connected. Political illiteracy comes with an enormous price. CoinSpice is a pirate ship, feisty and fun, but we’re not stupid. Wall Street is going to impact the ecosystem whether we like it or not. Regulators all over the world will continue to play a very large role in adoption.

How this is all framed, taken-on, is important. CoinSpice’s lone bias, out for the world to evaluate, is promoting peer-to-peer electronic cash, borderless, permissionless, censorship resistant, convenient, with fast, reliable, and inexpensive transactions.

Getting there is up for debate, and lots of it. Good people within the space hold differing views, and we’ll honor those and take them seriously. Check out our own Hayden Otto and his interview with Gabriel Cardona of Bitbox and Wormhole. The two men differ on tokenization, and Cardona is careful to separate his argument from personalities. Otto ends with a shrug, insisting everyone should be allowed to do with their bitcoin cash whatever they please.

That is what to expect from CoinSpice. We’re lucky as fuck to have Hayden, and that Gabe is working so brilliantly on Bitcoin Cash’s chain is another stroke of fortune worth celebrating. Divides are easily bridged by bringing fast, reliable, convenient, inexpensive, permissionless, borderless, censorship resistant, peer-to-peer electronic cash to the world. That’s also great journalism. That’s CoinSpice. And I mean it.

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