We’re sorry if at any moment in the past 14 years you chose based on our coverage not to buy a thing whose number has gone up. It’s nice when your number goes up. And we’re sorry if you misunderstood our crypto cynicism to be a declaration of support for tradfi, because we hate that too.
In an article posted on the 5th of December,
FT Alphaville (a news commentary/financial blog created by Financial Times) "apologizes". They acknowledged that they criticized bitcoin back then by saying that the coin did not have any utility and depended a lot on hype. They also said that bitcoin was an inefficient means of exchange and that they still stand by all of these. However, by the quote shared above they are apologizing to those who missed out on bitcoin back then when it was still trading below $100 if their articles or opinions had pushed them away from bitcoin.
People are calling this a weak apology as it seems sarcastic but I actually understand their point. I know that official news sites have a lot of bearings on our opinions but if someone decided to not give bitcoin a chance based on their article, who are we really to blame? There were cynics everywhere and people who decided to go against those criticisms are the ones coming out on top now. They knew better than to listen to people who were doubting bitcoin. We all have our own opinions and if they stand by their own that is okay. If their opinion managed to sway ours, that is our fault.
Well, the thing is, if at anytime, an article turns out to be the reason why I did not buy bitcoin, and right now, the price of bitcoin has gone up, and the company that wrote the article is now coming out to apologize to everyone who have because of the article, neglected or refused/failed to buy bitcoin, the company is really messing around - sincerely speaking.
Financial times are just being plainly stupid (forgive me for using that word, just can't find another to explain myself better with), what they are doing there is like adding salt to an already healing injury, just to make the injury to become afresh again, they should be hiding their faces in shame rather than post this garbage they term as apology.
Anyone who their negative articles on bitcoin have affected in the past, I am very sure such persons will become even more angrier if and when they come across this apology and read it, even though their not buying bitcoin is not really the fault of financial times, but their personal fault themselves.