“Ethereum’s whole purpose is to create this hive mind”
OUTLINE
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:36 From working at a wine store to reporting at CoinDesk
- 5:03 Working at a leading crypto media outlet – CoinDesk
- 09:58 Is Trump pro-crypto voters or pro-crypto donors?
- 12:59 New stories are born on Twitter
- 15:46 Sourcing news as a reporter
- 16:53 Is the crypto media too self-serving and too centralized?
- 19:22 Breaking news vs in-depth analysis
- 22:40 Crypto media should fix these
- 26:28 Newsrooms need Bitcoin-dedicated reporters
- 29:13 Media publications are funded by VCs
- 33:15 You can not report on crypto without owning crypto
- 35:57 Traditional media covering crypto skeptically
- 38:09 Tribalism in crypto
- 41:36 Book recommendations
Podcast Host
Pedro is a Chilean freelance journalist who has been covering the crypto space since 2019. Along with his Latin American finance newsletter called La Cadena, Pedro is currently writing for TheDefiant and has written for Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, Finder, Sin Permiso, El Mostrador, and a variety of other publications.
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Beyond The Beat
Telling the stories of the people covering crypto
