One of the biggest problems with crypto media is that it's mostly full of garbage.
To put it simply, crypto media is mostly full of garbage. Publications take money to write positive reviews of dubious projects. Influencers promote tokens that they are secretly selling to their followers. News sites publish whatever gets them clicks, whether it's true or not. Half the time you can't even trust what you're reading because someone is being paid to lie to you.
At CoinMinutes, we are not playing that game. No sneaky paid promotions. No writing things that we haven't verified. No pretending that we haven't made mistakes when we do. We don't work for the next big thing in crypto, our job is to give you real information.
The Importance of Ethics in Crypto Media
Poor crypto journalism is one of the major causes of people's loss of money.
Imagine this: You read an article about a new token. It sounds perfect, right? The article discusses partnerships, revolutionary technology, incredible profit potential. You invest. A couple of days later, the price plummets. You lose half your money.
The article didn't disclose that the publication was paid $10,000 for the write-up. The "partnerships" were lies. The technology was not functional. But anyway, they got their money and so the token creators. You're the one who's left with the losses.
This kind of stuff is always happening. When Cryptocurrency Market sites behave unethically, the whole ecosystem falls apart. Regulators observe the manipulations and impose stricter rules. People new to crypto become more skeptical and think that it's all a scam. Even the good projects that hardly get any attention from the media because of too many paid promotions.
Scammers are in their glory when trust is at an all-time low. If you believe that everything is biased, you don't check for red flags anymore. You think that sketchy behavior is just the norm in crypto. This is exactly what bad actors want you to believe.
On the other hand, ethics also makes sense from the business point of view. Publications that rapidly accumulate money from dubious promotions won't have loyal readers in the long run. If you deceive your readers once, they're done. They'll tell their friends too.
Ethical crypto media builds trust and protects readers, while dishonest reporting causes real harm.
CoinMinutes' Core Principles for Ethical Content
We've got some rules we don't break.
First up - no disguised ads. If we ever run advertisements (we don't right now), you'll know they're ads. What you read in our articles reflects what we actually think, not what an advertiser wants us to say.
Every fact gets checked. Writers give us sources. Editors verify them. Can't confirm something? We don't publish it. Simple as that. We're not running rumors as news.
Sometimes we get stuff wrong. We're human. When readers catch mistakes, we fix them right away and post a correction that says exactly what was wrong and what's actually true. No sneaky edits where we pretend we were right all along.
You won't find price predictions here. We'll tell you what happened and why it might've happened based on available data. But where prices are going? Nobody knows that, so we don't pretend to.
If our writers own tokens they're writing about, we tell you. You deserve to know if someone might be biased.
Our editorial team's separate from any business stuff. Advertisers can't buy their way into our coverage. Partnerships don't affect what we publish.
Responsible Educational Practices
Teaching people about crypto means being extra careful. They're making money decisions based on what they learn from us.
We explain things in normal English. Yeah, sometimes technical terms are necessary, but we define them when we use them. You shouldn't need a PhD to understand an explainer article.
Our examples use realistic numbers, not fantasy scenarios. An article about DeFi yields talks about actual returns people have gotten, including the risks and downsides. We show you what normally happens, not the best-case scenario where everything goes perfectly.
Risk gets equal time with benefits. Every time we discuss potential gains, we also discuss potential losses. Smart contract vulnerabilities, rug pulls, volatility - all of it. Giving you only half the picture isn't educating you.
We update old content when things change. Ethereum works differently after the merge than before. Leaving old information up without updating it turns accurate content into misinformation over time.
When experts disagree on something, we say so. When research is limited, we mention that. Pretending there's certainty where none exists just misleads you.
There's a form on our site for ethics complaints. Multiple editors see every submission - can't have one person burying complaints they don't like. We respond within three business days, explaining what we found and what we're doing about it.
Sometimes we disagree with complaints. When that happens, we explain why. The process itself should be transparent.
Last year's a good example. Readers complained that affiliate links in our exchange guides created pressure to recommend certain platforms over others. They had a point. We removed all affiliate links from educational content. Your feedback changed our policy.
We've got an ethics board that reviews our practices every few months. Board members include community people, crypto researchers, and someone who specializes in journalism ethics. They look at what we're doing, point out problems, and suggest fixes. Their reports are public.
Comments on articles catch mistakes fast. Readers who know specific topics better than our writers spot errors we miss. Some of our most important corrections came from people in the comments.
Community feedback, open review, and public reports help keep crypto media honest and ethical.
The Lasting Impact of Ethical Content
Being ethical's actually worked out pretty well for us.
Our traffic's up 280% over the past year and a half. That growth came from people recommending us to friends, not from us paying for promotion. Readers trust us enough to share our stuff.
About 73% of people who read one article come back later. That's way higher than normal for crypto sites. People return because they don't feel tricked or manipulated.
Other projects actually use our content in their educational materials now. They trust it to be accurate instead of pushing some agenda. That trust took time to build.
We've caught scams early by actually investigating claims instead of just repeating them. Back in March, a project claimed partnerships with major companies. We called those companies. None of them had ever heard of the project. Our article stopped readers from investing in something that collapsed two weeks later.
A few competitors have started labeling sponsored content more clearly after readers compared their practices to ours. Ethical behavior creates pressure on others to raise their standards.
When we survey readers, way more people trust Coinminutes Crypto than trust crypto media generally. That trust gap's our competitive edge. Doing the right thing isn't just morally correct - it's good for us too.
Conclusion
Keeping the crypto content ethical is a daily struggle. We keep up our level by having definite principles, doing a thorough fact-checking, making public corrections when we are wrong, and listening to you.
People come to us because of you. That trust was the result of the long-term commitment of doing the right thing even when it was more tempting or would bring more profit to take a shortcut. We will continue to make that decision.
Most crypto media is just absolute trash.
One of the biggest problems with crypto media is that it's mostly full of garbage.
To put it simply, crypto media is mostly full of garbage. Publications take money to write positive reviews of dubious projects. Influencers promote tokens that they are secretly selling to their followers. News sites publish whatever gets them clicks, whether it's true or not. Half the time you can't even trust what you're reading because someone is being paid to lie to you.
At CoinMinutes, we are not playing that game. No sneaky paid promotions. No writing things that we haven't verified. No pretending that we haven't made mistakes when we do. We don't work for the next big thing in crypto, our job is to give you real information.
The Importance of Ethics in Crypto Media
Poor crypto journalism is one of the major causes of people's loss of money.
Imagine this: You read an article about a new token. It sounds perfect, right? The article discusses partnerships, revolutionary technology, incredible profit potential. You invest. A couple of days later, the price plummets. You lose half your money.
The article didn't disclose that the publication was paid $10,000 for the write-up. The "partnerships" were lies. The technology was not functional. But anyway, they got their money and so the token creators. You're the one who's left with the losses.
This kind of stuff is always happening. When Cryptocurrency Market sites behave unethically, the whole ecosystem falls apart. Regulators observe the manipulations and impose stricter rules. People new to crypto become more skeptical and think that it's all a scam. Even the good projects that hardly get any attention from the media because of too many paid promotions.
Scammers are in their glory when trust is at an all-time low. If you believe that everything is biased, you don't check for red flags anymore. You think that sketchy behavior is just the norm in crypto. This is exactly what bad actors want you to believe.
On the other hand, ethics also makes sense from the business point of view. Publications that rapidly accumulate money from dubious promotions won't have loyal readers in the long run. If you deceive your readers once, they're done. They'll tell their friends too.
CoinMinutes' Core Principles for Ethical Content
We've got some rules we don't break.
First up - no disguised ads. If we ever run advertisements (we don't right now), you'll know they're ads. What you read in our articles reflects what we actually think, not what an advertiser wants us to say.
Every fact gets checked. Writers give us sources. Editors verify them. Can't confirm something? We don't publish it. Simple as that. We're not running rumors as news.
Sometimes we get stuff wrong. We're human. When readers catch mistakes, we fix them right away and post a correction that says exactly what was wrong and what's actually true. No sneaky edits where we pretend we were right all along.
You won't find price predictions here. We'll tell you what happened and why it might've happened based on available data. But where prices are going? Nobody knows that, so we don't pretend to.
If our writers own tokens they're writing about, we tell you. You deserve to know if someone might be biased.
Our editorial team's separate from any business stuff. Advertisers can't buy their way into our coverage. Partnerships don't affect what we publish.
Responsible Educational Practices
Teaching people about crypto means being extra careful. They're making money decisions based on what they learn from us.
We explain things in normal English. Yeah, sometimes technical terms are necessary, but we define them when we use them. You shouldn't need a PhD to understand an explainer article.
Our examples use realistic numbers, not fantasy scenarios. An article about DeFi yields talks about actual returns people have gotten, including the risks and downsides. We show you what normally happens, not the best-case scenario where everything goes perfectly.
Risk gets equal time with benefits. Every time we discuss potential gains, we also discuss potential losses. Smart contract vulnerabilities, rug pulls, volatility - all of it. Giving you only half the picture isn't educating you.
We update old content when things change. Ethereum works differently after the merge than before. Leaving old information up without updating it turns accurate content into misinformation over time.
When experts disagree on something, we say so. When research is limited, we mention that. Pretending there's certainty where none exists just misleads you.
Find More Information:
CoinMinutes’ Guidelines for Addressing Crypto Myths and Misinformation
How CoinMinutes Builds a Culture of Crypto Learning
Community Involvement in Ethical Standards
You guys keep us honest, honestly.
There's a form on our site for ethics complaints. Multiple editors see every submission - can't have one person burying complaints they don't like. We respond within three business days, explaining what we found and what we're doing about it.
Sometimes we disagree with complaints. When that happens, we explain why. The process itself should be transparent.
Last year's a good example. Readers complained that affiliate links in our exchange guides created pressure to recommend certain platforms over others. They had a point. We removed all affiliate links from educational content. Your feedback changed our policy.
We've got an ethics board that reviews our practices every few months. Board members include community people, crypto researchers, and someone who specializes in journalism ethics. They look at what we're doing, point out problems, and suggest fixes. Their reports are public.
Comments on articles catch mistakes fast. Readers who know specific topics better than our writers spot errors we miss. Some of our most important corrections came from people in the comments.
The Lasting Impact of Ethical Content
Being ethical's actually worked out pretty well for us.
Our traffic's up 280% over the past year and a half. That growth came from people recommending us to friends, not from us paying for promotion. Readers trust us enough to share our stuff.
About 73% of people who read one article come back later. That's way higher than normal for crypto sites. People return because they don't feel tricked or manipulated.
Other projects actually use our content in their educational materials now. They trust it to be accurate instead of pushing some agenda. That trust took time to build.
We've caught scams early by actually investigating claims instead of just repeating them. Back in March, a project claimed partnerships with major companies. We called those companies. None of them had ever heard of the project. Our article stopped readers from investing in something that collapsed two weeks later.
A few competitors have started labeling sponsored content more clearly after readers compared their practices to ours. Ethical behavior creates pressure on others to raise their standards.
When we survey readers, way more people trust Coinminutes Crypto than trust crypto media generally. That trust gap's our competitive edge. Doing the right thing isn't just morally correct - it's good for us too.
Conclusion
Keeping the crypto content ethical is a daily struggle. We keep up our level by having definite principles, doing a thorough fact-checking, making public corrections when we are wrong, and listening to you.
People come to us because of you. That trust was the result of the long-term commitment of doing the right thing even when it was more tempting or would bring more profit to take a shortcut. We will continue to make that decision.