Really hope alan doesn't sell out to Let's Talk Bitcoin, they been known to take bribes for positive stories and reviews. **COUGH** BFL **COUGH**
lol, yeah good point - Wait, what? We've never reviewed ANY mining hardware, and have spent the last two months talking about whether ASICs as a whole are bad for Bitcoin.
What are you talking about?
Nvm it was codinginmysleep's blog, so many bitcoin podcast and blogs, I lose track. Anyway still a bitcoin blog/podcast shouldn't have a developer in it's pocket, it justs looks bad. You really should be as independent as you can be.
Why would it be right for a company like Bitpay or Bitinstant to hire a core developer, but inappropriate for a media outlet to support a developer? I can flatly tell you that's not in the cards, but I'm totally not seeing your logic here.
Well we are talking about two different things here. I am oppose of bitpay having a core developer on it's team no doubt about that. I feel that group should be independent as well. But clearly Gavin has paved that road already for them as being look, and whine for a paycheck. Alan is neither a core developer, so I have not oppose to him getting a paycheck. I am glad he can get a paycheck. Now a media outlet should be independent, granted I never really been to your site, or listened to your podcast.
So now you pay Alan, and lets say Alan puts out a horrible feature. Are you going to report that? Are you going to give a negative report? Even though he is now on your payroll, you probably just ignore it or something, and that would make most people stop listening/reading. You see now, independence is something that is very important in this economy.
why don't we try a little experiment?
see that line over there to the left in his sig? why don't you try putting him in your pocket for a little pocket change and see what happens?
See this would be really bad experiment. I am not trying to brag but bitcoins has made me a very wealthy person. I don't have to sell out for a paycheck and I understand that isn't true for everyone. Sometimes the lure of money is greater than the moral/ethic part of the job.
My record of work is out there for anyone interested.
You didn't answer the questions I posed to you.
Besides pointing you to my body of work, I don't know what I could say that could possibly convince you. I take my work very seriously with the goal of providing a platform for the various viewpoints ideas and personalities who make up the cryptocurrency movement. I view the most important pillar of my duties to be expectation management for the audience, so in the particular scenario you describe there, if it were an unusual thing for Armory to be buggy and warranted discussion (we only have two hours a week so tend to focus and discuss rather than try to cover everything briefly) we would cover it.
In order to keep LTB from being influenced, we have routinely turned down sponsorship offers that involve on-air endorsements. Our advertising spots are pre-recorded and distinctly segmented from the journalistic content, which has in fact made it more difficult to monetize but LTB is not and was never intended to make me wealthy, it is a platform to promote the conversation and lend a megaphone to people with good ideas but no way to share them.
If you're wealthy because of Bitcoin and want to empower ad free quality content we should talk, I'm much more looking for patrons with LTB than I am sponsors as I consider what we're doing a public service.
