I think the U.S. news media itself, aside from the government, is doing an incredibly effective job as keeping the prevailing perception of cryptocurrency as something that’s used by scammers, criminals, terrorists, and stupid gamblers. The coverage of the Kim Kardashian EthereumMax charges and $1.26M fine was indisutably the biggest story in the country yesterday (Mon, Oct 3, 2022): it was #1 on Twitter Trending (where the selected headline rounded up the fine to $1.3M), it was covered with full articles in dozens of news publications, and there’s now a whole section of her Wikipedia article about it. The timing is interesting: her Instagram post was on June 14, 2021, a year and 3 months ago, and yet it wasn’t till now, a couple weeks after Ethereum’s merge, that all this happened? Just as the media destroys the reputations of famous people, non-famous people, companies, and products, I see it as doing the same with crypto; here’s a question, right now in October 2022, that speaks to that: Would all or most of your relatives, friends, and acquaintances say “Yes” to the statement that “Cryptocurrency is the future”? Now try that same question with other recent tech: artifical intelligence, electric cars, and virtual reality.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1576908148325187584
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian#Cryptocurrency_promotion
Traffic spike to the article (22K visits):
https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages=Kim_Kardashian
This is an entertainment-news aggregator – see that first group of more than 30 curated headlines:
https://www.wesmirch.com/221003/h1530
