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Hello, I am looking to interview two to three people who are Bitcoin mining, and have been for some time. I want to speak to experienced miners to learn more about your experience, etc.

I can do this on skype, or via email.

See article I wrote today, and I need interview within next four days for next weeks article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-seaver/mining-for-digital-gold-n_b_3158988.html

Thanks, Jesse

Jesse, it's great to see big, mainstream media write about Bitcoin. Especially if it's with an open, positive approach focusing on the innovative and revolutionary side of it. Rather than presenting it as mere "virtual money" (as if it being purely digital would make it any less real than euros or dollars of which 99% also exist only digital), or "created by unknown hackers" (as if it matters who made it, now that it's fully open source and publicly available, provably running completely decentralized), as some other badly informed journalists managed to do. Or B.S. like "Bitcoin has been hacked several times" (as if they'd say that the euro or dollar has been hacked when a bank gets robbed - only some independent 3rd party websites got hacked, Bitcoin itself was never compromised in any way).

However, it'd be great if you can also focus on other aspects of Bitcoin than mining. Thing is, this whole mining stuff is not at all what Bitcoin is about. It's about taking the power and control over our money away from banks (with all their greed and corruption) and bringing it back to the people. Truly free (as in freedom of speech), global, easy to use, safe & secure money that can be used to directly pay anyone in the world. Without depending on (or being controlled by) any bank, government or other authority. This revolutionary novelty could truly change the way we think about money, our world wide economy, and its potential impact on our world is incredible. It's sometimes called "disruptive technology" (in a good way).

Mining is only a construction to enforce the creation of new bitcoins being fair and equally (in terms of effort that people put into it) distributed. And more importantly, to do so fully automatically and decentralized, without someone deciding who gets what. So mining is essentially just a small, technical detail of Bitcoin. In fact people wouldn't need to know about mining at all (let alone participate in it) in order to have or use Bitcoin.

Anyway, just wanted to point it out, to put things in perspective. Looking forward to your article and I hope you'll write more on Bitcoin after that. It's interesting inspiring stuff :)

Hi Jesse
I spread the word to some of the bigger/longer term miners on my pool :)
Look forward to the article
Graet

oh god no hes going to interview bfl

Awesome to see that the major media is writing more and more about Bitcoins!

if you'd like to talk to the "little guy" as it were as well as bigger miners, i'm available. from roughly summer 2011 to spring 2012 i had a mere 40 mhash on my nvidia card in my gaming pc... last year i bought a single amd card, so i'm up to a whopping 330 mhash.... sigh.

I'll will interview with you.   PM me with an email address so we can schedule something.

I assume you're talking to BFL, you should demand a Jalapeno as Wired received one...
Don't forget to mention miners' dissapointment of BFL and their false promises...  :-X

I'd recommend talking to some start up miners too, maybe some people who have been doing it on simpler graphics cards for a year or so to see how difficult the start up process was for them and how it all worked. Great article though for the first one, looking forward to the  next!

Joo got scooped:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-pavley/miner-mike-the-bitcoin-mi_b_3171118.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

"Bitcoin fixes Blizzard's World of Warcraft gold mining?" Really?


The emphasis of any article these days should not be on mining, except mentioning that it's completely pointless to mine unless you want to put thousands of dollars into capital and have a sound plan to obtain a solid ROI; that the currency is best obtained by and used for commerce. The mistake reporters make is to rehash what has already been written many times about Bitcoin filtered through their own noob misunderstandings.

Every article about what shirt Miley Cyrus is wearing today doesn't have a background on who she is, where she came from, how many records she sold, along with interviews of the "weirdos" who are fans and editorializing from the writer about how she isn't a legitimate artist. You can't report on just what Bitcoin is, because it was news two years ago; if your beat is Bitcoin, go find some news.

that guy you linked isn't a reporter he just has a slightly bigger need than a facebooker to talk about his night out with friends

reporting is a dying art