And as an aside, I was recently informed that if we have to, we are prepared to go a very long time with no advertising at all.
Ever heard the phrase "Closing the barn door after the horse has bolted"?
Reputations can be built up over years and destroyed in weeks. However, I never rated CCN even before your outrageous metaphorical Garza dick sucking.
The community as a whole knows to take anything CCN writes with a huge pinch of salt.
By the way, what was the last story your website broke exclusively due to quality journalistic investigations?
We are aware about reputation, but you have to realize it's a very small minority of the community that actually has this extreme view of our history. CCN was not alone in running GAW ads. They had pre-paid a contract long in advance. Part of the friction between David and Josh was that the contract was still running when Caleb and others started running articles that weren't favorable.
I can understand how people feel about Scott's reviews of GAW hardware. I myself had a break with Scott after I saw that he had tried to convince David to let him write a pro-Josh article after my article pissed Josh off. I was writing for Bitcoinist.net as well at the time, with Scott as the editor, and I quit writing there for this very reason, despite their pay rates being a little better than ours are at the moment. CCN has taken a lot of heat due to Scott's actions, and I think eventually he himself will conclude his relationship with CCN.
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About 60% of the articles I wrote last week were based on tips from the community, not tips submitted to Reddit or whatever, but tips sent directly to us by readers who want to see us writing about a particular thing. My guess is that the other outlets ignore these tips, or they're not receiving them, or both.
In relation to this the first article I'm about to point to, I've received more than a dozen e-mails in the interim, mostly people having additions to the story.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-mining-company-bitmine-facing-multiple-lawsuits-defrauding-customers/This next article, someone basically just said, "I think this is a scam." I wrote the article, and I don't think anyone else has written about it. Given that we are one of the top results when someone is googling for Bitcoin results, orders of magnitude higher than several of our so-called competitors, I feel like we have a duty to expose scams early and often. We're currently considering doing a twice-weekly round-up of scams. Anyway:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-scam-alert-btc-multiplier-com/
