#57: 🏓 Crypto vs. Journalism + An interview w/ Erik Townsend (Macro Voices)

👋 STEEMIT (STEEM) layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter

💸 CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises

🗞 A study shows the media coverage of Bitcoin tipped from mostly positive to mostly negative in 2017

🏦 Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto

Reading:

• Beyond Blockchain: The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of Digital Currency (Erik Townsend, 2018)

• Steemit Lays Off 70% of Its Staff, Citing Crypto Bear Market

• “I had to borrow money to pay my rent”: Civil’s tokenomics has left some of its journalists wondering where their salary is (Nieman Labs)