Aaron Van Wirdum tells epic BTC journalism tales. from The Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast

Aaron Van Wirdum tells epic BTC journalism tales.

25 minutes Posted Jan 22, 2019 at 12:00 am.

How Aaron became interested in learning and writing about bitcoin.</li>

How are bitcoin and free speech interconnected?</li>

Aaron tells how he reconciles his bitcoin positivity with the overwhelmingly negative mainstream press.</li>

How is bitcoin like the printing press and how can we learn from the past to predict the future?</li>

Aaron uses the example of the evolution of the bicycle to explain that we may not understand how bitcoin will develop.</li>

Aaron shares a few major misconceptions about bitcoin that he would love to fix.</li>

Aaron tells some journalism war stories.</li>

Aaron lists the names of other bitcoin journalists that he trusts.</li>

Aaron’s advice for listeners.</li>

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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AaronvanW">Aaron Van Wirdum</a>, technical editor for the <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/">Bitcoin Magazine</a>, regales us with bitcoin journalism stories.</p>

<p>About the episode.

<p><h2>Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/">Bitcoin Magazine</a></li>

<li><a href="https://twitter.com/AaronvanW">Aaron Van Wirdum</a></li>

<li><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press">History of the printing press</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Onion_routing">Onion Routing</a></li>

<li><a href="https://lightning.network/">Lightning Network</a></li>

<li><a href="https://www.cryptocompare.com/wallets/guides/how-do-digital-signatures-in-bitcoin-work/">Bitcoin signatures</a></li>

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