It's pretty understandable that fanboys are badgering skeptics on social networks. If I had a few hundred thousand pop out of the blue from a cryptocurrency fad, maybe I would be doing it as well. And that's a big problem, because mainstream journalists are guilty of that as well.
MIT Technology Review, to pick one example, wrote an article about IOTA, mentioning their partnerships with mainstream companies, even though IOTA refuted the partnership notion the same day. Clearly, the author didn't reach out to any of those companies for confirmation.
I can't help but think that many of those articles are written by people, influenced by their own cryptocurrency assets. In fact, this conflict of interest for journalists could be one of the key driving forces of the bubble.
MIT Technology Review, to pick one example, wrote an article about IOTA, mentioning their partnerships with mainstream companies, even though IOTA refuted the partnership notion the same day. Clearly, the author didn't reach out to any of those companies for confirmation.
I can't help but think that many of those articles are written by people, influenced by their own cryptocurrency assets. In fact, this conflict of interest for journalists could be one of the key driving forces of the bubble.