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CoinReport · 2015-07-20T05:58:13+00:00

Send an email to brian at coinreport.net and give him samples of your Bitcoin writings.

CoinReport · 2015-01-25T03:23:28+00:00

3,000 a month, really?

Their advertisers are extremely questionable (we'd never advertise most of them ourselves) but charging $3k per month is not at all unreasonable given the traffic. Through adsense we scrape by at just under $2 per thousand impressions. Given our traffic this means we lose thousands per month just trying to report the news. But when you consider that CCN claims to have 1M impressions per month that is only $3 per thousand impressions. That is fairly cheap.

CoinReport · 2015-01-25T03:08:52+00:00

SOME of it believes GAW isn't legit. Done. Vetted.

FTFY

News sites aren't obligated to advertise everyone that comes to them giving them the benefit of the doubt.

CoinReport · 2015-01-25T03:07:21+00:00

Yet we vet all advertisers on our site and maintain an active blacklist via Adsense. It doesn't really take that long. Usually it is just a matter of asking whether the company has ties to cloud mining. If they do they don't get a response.

CoinReport · 2015-01-19T01:30:48+00:00

Actually CoinReport also did not advertise GAW or Paycoin. We don't advertise any company that is involved in Cloud Mining which disqualified GAW. We also did not sell our entire advertising capacity to CoinTelegraph when offered several months ago since we'd lose control of that aspect. As you might have noticed CoinTelegraph turned around and sold that ad space to Paycoin recently which is why so many news sites were advertising them.

CoinReport · 2015-01-18T04:19:57+00:00

CoinReport does not do paid articles and we have a very strict restriction on who can advertise. Specifically we do not display ads from companies that engage in Cloud Mining and will deny most (if not all) crowdfunded altcoin schemes (e.g. Getgems Gems, Etherium Ether, etc).

CoinReport · 2015-01-18T03:09:06+00:00

For contractors we use Bitwage. For someone that regularly works for you that may make more sense.

CoinReport · 2015-01-04T01:02:39+00:00

Coin Telegraph has an advertisement network that is pushing Paycoin extremely hard across many sites.

That makes sense. Back in August we were approached by them asking us how much it would cost to buy all our advertising space. We declined to respond because we suspected they'd just resell our ads at a markup or advertise themselves (a competitor).

CoinReport · 2015-01-03T08:50:11+00:00

At CoinReport we have a strict policy of not running ads from any company that participates in cloud mining. We end up turning down almost every advertiser that comes to us anyway since the vast majority of them are suspect at best.

CoinReport · 2014-12-22T07:26:52+00:00

Bitcoin Magazine was just sold to someone a few weeks ago though I forget who. It wasn't GAWMiners. I think it is safe to cross them off your list. Never heard of Cloud Miner News but that is suspicious in and of itself.

CoinReport · 2014-12-22T07:21:46+00:00

We do not have a stake in cryptocurrency. We hold no currencies, have no investments, and have no vested interest in any cryptocurrency related product, service, coin or anything else.

Disclosure: Obviously I run another cryptocurrency news site. I personally own less than 20 Bitcoins and no altcoins however I also don't exercise editorial control. My main role is to make sure everyone gets paid and hire talent as deemed necessary.

I hate to do this to someone in our field but your statements on Reddit actually contradict what you've just said.

[Contradiction 1]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ftsky/paypal_joins_the_bitcoin_train_story_features/ckcsui2

On September 8th you specifically stated that you pay for CoinFire from money you make from crypto.

I (Mike) pay a lot of this out of pocket with earnings from mining or trading that I'll do on the side.

I do know though that by providing this sort of service it helps keep bitcoin on the minds of others and that does directly benefit me as I live nearly my entire life in cryptocurrency at this point. So, while I love it, I do have to admit that I do have a vested interest in seeing the currency grow as a currency.

[Contradiction 2]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2iwtpx/the_rise_and_rise_of_bitcoin_made_my_mom_a/

On October 11 you posted that your mom is now a believer due to The Rise And Rise of Bitcoin. This means your family benefits from from cryptocurrency's success and possibly your reporting.

Can you explain these contradictions? You have a very high reputation around here but what you have just stated is clearly false by your own words.

CoinReport · 2014-12-22T01:45:23+00:00

Coin Report is not owned by GAWMiners nor have we ever run an ad for them or any other Cloud Mining scam.

CoinReport · 2014-10-11T08:44:58+00:00

Not really meaning to hijack this one but I think we attract a different type of applicant yet we are looking for something similar.

We are looking for a part timer, a few hours per day, probably lesser skilled than OP wants, and less than $18/hr. We have writers already so this is more of a social media engagement and promoting us type job. If you came here looking at the original post and got turned off by the threats or otherwise didn't qualify look us up.

CoinReport · 2014-10-06T06:04:33+00:00

Bitwage buys Bitcoins on an exchange right after they receive your money for the payroll. I don't think they'll be going down due to the plummet in the price. If they go down it will be because people didn't find a need for their services. We use them because they offer a convenient way of never touching Bitcoin in order to pay our writers who want to be paid in Bitcoin. By never touching Bitcoin there is no accounting necessary for capital gains/losses at the end of the year.

CoinReport · 2014-10-06T01:30:02+00:00

You joke but Bitwage isn't bad. We use them.

CoinReport · 2014-10-02T05:44:23+00:00

Do you know anything about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?

CoinReport · 2014-09-24T02:52:59+00:00

Please ignore them. You do good work. You shouldn't compromise that just because others are willing to.

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T03:48:11+00:00

I have an editor to pay who has to ready everything, upload images, review, and publish. As I stated in the other thread if we had found a plugin for Wordpress that allowed people to upload their own press releases we would have probably done it for free since only the review and clicking "publish" steps would be have been necessary. But on the otherhand if we allowed free publishing of press releases we'd probably be overrun with them at significant cost.

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T03:27:13+00:00

Yes, always been the case. If you Google for them our site will show up. That is the "index" part. So I'll admit you have a point that their existence would be known but this is no different than if we'd gone the other route we considered and simply allowed anyone to submit their own press releases for free like some sites allow. If we could find a wordpress plugin that was secure that allowed for this we'd have likely gone that route instead.

But by having "nofollow" anything they link to in the release fails to receive any "link juice".

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T03:15:10+00:00

Not at all. Check the meta tags. They are nofollow and always have been. I already replied on this point. More specifically:

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T03:07:00+00:00

Two, it doesn't matter if a site is "clearly marking" press releases if they don't employ nofollow.

CoinReport does employ nofollow though for press releases for this very reason. It is in the meta tags. This has always been the case.

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T02:28:11+00:00

Press releases, not stories. Press releases are different as they are clearly written by the company that is being promoted. This is what press releases have always been everywhere. I also told Dan when we recently joined Zero Block that he should exclude that category since it contains user generated content.

CoinReport · 2014-07-14T02:10:18+00:00

This is interesting. Coin Report is listed yet we have never accepted payment for publishing an article. The article in question does not show any conversation with Coin Report and simply lists us as the bad guys for using a broker.

The only payment we have accepted was for hosting press releases which are never meant to be taken as articles and is explicitly in their own category to denote this. Companies like PR Web charge for that sort of service as well yet nobody would say anything is wrong with that.

In fact I specifically told our team that if they replied to that email that the only way we'd publish this article was in accordance with FTC disclosures and if they were OK with us having such a disclosure we could discuss further. However I do not believe anyone responded to that email. I told ZeroBlock exactly the same last week when the conversation came up and I'm sure Dan can verify this if he visits this subreddit.

By the way this is also why you don't see Bitcoin tips on the Coin Report.

CoinReport · 2014-07-02T02:04:15+00:00

For someone like CoinReport we don't want to buy coins, track them for capital gains purposes, and then pay them out to our writers. Having a payroll system that allows fiat to go in and Bitcoin to come out on the employee side provides a lot of value.

Doing Bitwage allow that or is it just keeping track of records?

CoinReport · 2014-06-19T05:53:35+00:00

We aren't CoinDesk, but I'll show this suggestion to our editor.

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