Change mainstream media's perception on "Bitcoin being used by thieves"

[panganib999]

The best way to change it is to present them with facts but mainstream media have their own agenda in everything they do. Either they support a political party or a bank that is their partner or shareholder.

The facts are: fiat money is mostly used by drug addicts and thieves. How many crimes arountd the world involve Bitcoin and how many fiat money? Not a minute passes by without someone being robbed of their money somewhere.

We should continue on sharing experiences and how bitcoin changed our lives in a good terms. I think they get the idea of "bitcoin being used in bad things" in such website like deep web and etc. Seek knowledge first before making a conclusion because you don't know that everyone that read your false statement will believe in you. You're fooling people with that, you disgust people who want to use bitcoin so that they have a great future for themselves. You can't rob a digital currency, it is only possible when you got hacked by an anonymous using your wallet. But in thieves? fiat currency are the only vulnerable on that kind of situation. Know first the advantages of bitcoin and do not share any bad information that isn't true.

[davis196]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

We can't.Bitcoin is really used by the criminals.Fiat is used by the criminals as well,but nobody is talking about it.Only simple minded people care about the mainstream media nowadays.What you call "mainstream media" is just a propaganda machine that serves the rich and powerful elite.Just ignore all the news about bitcoin and move on.This topic has been discussed 100 times here.It's pointless to continue with the same questions.

[ntsdm1]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

You can of course change everything but you need to have resources for this.Media,Television, Radio,to create a positive image of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the subconscious of people.All these tools are available to the government of any countries, so you need to influence them.

[romeojasmin13]

"Bitcoin is used for drugs" is a popular opinion among people having no idea about cryptocurrency and its fundamental purposes. I'm not saying that it is how Bitcoin represented in mass media.
Only time will help to change it.

[Debonaire217]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

In order to provide changes to the system or the way how people look at cryptocurrency mainly influenced by the mainstream media, we need to understand that each one of us has the capability to provide our influence because of the other platforms such as social media, and mostly, internet. We all know how powerful mass media such as television is, but as of today, they are not the only entity that could impact the world greatly, if we could start in our selves to utilize cryptocurrency in the perfect way possible that we can, we can change the perspective that people have about it in the first place.

[plvbob0070]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

Basically that's what the media can do. They can manipulate people's mindset by giving one-sided news and update to show that most cryptocurrency related issues are all about illegal activities, and we know that media can be controlled by the government themselves. If they really want to give bad image to bitcoin, they can easily do that using mass media.

Although part of it was true and we can't deny that. Decentralized cryptocurrency such as bitcoin is common for illegal transactions just to avoid leaving traces. That's the negative side of bitcoin that we cannot erase. And I think that's also normal. Illegal transactions are also happening with the use of fiat.

The thing to change their perception towards bitcoin, is to give them awareness and knowledge that bitcoin isn't just about illegal things. We can also do that by using media, although there's a lack of support, media isn't just limited to tv or what, we can use our social media to educate and correct their wrong perceptions. We can do various ways to change their minds only if we're eager to do it.

[Daniel91]

It's very difficult to influence media, specially mainstream media.
They really like to share bad news like that drug dealers paid for drugs with btc and of course people like to read such news.
We can't change bad news but can try to create and spread more good and positive news about crypto to the media.
In my country, Croatia we are lucky because recently Croatian Post, in cooperation with one private company,  offered crypto exchange to their users in all main post offices in the country.
Such news have power to change public opinion about crypto and can influence media  
We need more such news.

[rosezionjohn]

Not every news about cryptocurrency published by mainstream media are negative. They also do informative piece such as this one https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/965220728755847168

The bigger issue here are the opinionated and self-proclaimed "crypto experts" hired or invited by mainstream media for interviews. They love publishing statements of guys like Peter who knows little about bitcoin.

2. Mainstream media love negative news, they know that they generate much more clicks than positive news.

Not exactly. It's the people who are consciously or subconsciously hooked to these negative news. The mainstream media knows it and they will keep feeding them those types of news.

[isaac_clarke22]

We can't, sadly.
Everyone has their own perception about certain things and there's nothing we could do about it.
Even outside crypto, there are contributions to a certain social groups and do you think you can trust those contributions?
I even remembered back in the day that Bitcoin was used by a marketer ( I don't really remember the specialization of that person) to make a ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin being used by criminals was my first thought before I started investing into it. Turns out I was wrong due to a friend of mine that proved me wrong.

[SquallLeonhart]

It's very difficult to influence media, specially mainstream media.
They really like to share bad news like that drug dealers paid for drugs with btc and of course people like to read such news.
We can't change bad news but can try to create and spread more good and positive news about crypto to the media.
In my country, Croatia we are lucky because recently Croatian Post, in cooperation with one private company,  offered crypto exchange to their users in all main post offices in the country.
Such news have power to change public opinion about crypto and can influence media  
We need more such news.

Media is actually responsible for spreading any kind of news. Media is most useful for the citizens of each country because they come to know about the ups and downs been faced in real life. Also not each of the news shared by media might be true but it has some weightage which makes people believe them. These news platforms also have a lot of traffic which means a lot of people might depend on media for their investments.

Considering for the start of the bitcoin's career, we have seen that the media as well as the government are hardly in favor of bitcoins so they would never stop spreading the negativity about them globally. I am pleased to see that your country is spreading some positive news which should bring some positive revolution into the career of bitcoins and blockchain.

[imstillthebest]

We can't, sadly.
Everyone has their own perception about certain things and there's nothing we could do about it.

why not   ? you can change it if you will do something like forming a group and then make an advoacy spreading positive words around the web and also offline in regards to btc  . in that way many people will believe that btc is not bad   .

those people later on will know the truth and will only ignore negative speculations  . sometimes media are only being paid to publish false news but we can also counter it by paying other media to publish only the truth 

[Lucius]

According to a recent Chainalysis report, only 0.08% of all received crypto was coming from darknet markets.

There is a discussion here, from which it is actually very easy to see how a so-called journalist who uses this kind of research for another public call of Bitcoin as a tool used by criminals. It's not really about the percentage, it could even be 0.01%, but it is important to display Bitcoin in the worst possible light whether it is illegal transactions or the destruction of the environment by mining.

Mainstream media is nothing but the tools of the richest people in the world who shape public opinion through it. The media will only change their perception if they receive orders from those who own them.

The trend of media conglomeration has been steady. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled most of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry: Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany and Viacom. With markets branching rapidly into international territories, these few companies are increasingly responsible for deciding what information is shared around the world.

[pakhitheboss]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

In my country half of the mainstream media is owned by the government and the other half by the opposition. People in my country are aware that most information telecasted by the mainstream media is paid information. Hence they watch it but they never believe in it.

On the other hand social media spreads like wildfire, it is the best place to spread a genuine news as people to people voices are more heard. Therefore we should concentrate more on social media.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

Do we need to change it? I don't think so. You can compare with the utilization of money fiat, how much transaction who made for illegal transaction? Yeah there are a lot and it is commonly used.

That we should change is our mindset to bitcoin, I mean there are a lot of people even its user who doesn't use bitcoin as payment system. They are more prefer to use bitcoin as an investment place only. Because if we use bitcoin as daily transaction and there are a lot of people too who used it as payment system then I believe the news will never come again. Many people there will see bitcoin as money fiat as they use it.

[gundala]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

Of course. The easiest thing we do is to educate those closest to us, such as brother or sister, husband or wife, parents, friends, etc. This is more effective in straightening out inappropriate and overly generalized news. Even though there are other functions that are more useful if we can use them well.

[bitgolden]

I keep seeing the news that "Bitcoin is used for drugs", "Bitcoin is primarily used by thieves" pretty much every other day. The well informed people know that it isnt true but the mainstream media's perception stays the same. How do we change it and can we?

How could the so called "well informed" people know it isn't true? It indeed is true but it does not affect us. We all know, bitcoins are been used on a greater extend on most of the illegal platforms which includes deepweb/ darkweb. This is the most horrible side of the internet where all illegal activities like buying/selling drugs, weapons, hiring hackers/hitmans, etc are been provided in exchange with bitcoins.

Why are bitcoins used there? Only because of the natural properties that bitcoins hold there are been used as a medium for payment onto those platforms. Bitcoins are untraceable which makes the illegal people make most use out of them. This should be stopped but the natural properties for bitcoins should never be dissipate.

[Anonylz]

This is no longer important because btc has proven to be far useful technology than just a digital currency use to sponsor terrorist or as a ponzi scheme, any mainstream media still wrap around this perception does not want to admit the truth or fail to do research even as a media outlet,
Gone where the days when people pay attention to misguided news like this, nowadays, people are more wiser and knows how to seek for their own truth, the media don't have such influence on the minds of people anymore,
Despite some negative news btc keeps coming strong which is why the btc supports keeps increasing. Many mainstream media already changing their perception and i believe the rest will follow in due time.

[blckhawk]

That's difficult to achieve. Mainstream media is too influential to oppose, and they can manipulate and filter out the news to only publicize those negative circumstances happening in Bitcoin network.

While it's not false, the way they convey such news only and disregard the advantages of Bitcoin is where it goes wrong. And the public, of course, would always almost believe in what they see on these media, unless they have the initiative to do the opposite.

[Twinkledoe]

That's difficult to achieve. Mainstream media is too influential to oppose, and they can manipulate and filter out the news to only publicize those negative circumstances happening in Bitcoin network.

While it's not false, the way they convey such news only and disregard the advantages of Bitcoin is where it goes wrong. And the public, of course, would always almost believe in what they see on these media, unless they have the initiative to do the opposite.

One small way of spreading the benefits and advantages of using bitcoin or crypto is to share the benefits with your family, friends or colleagues that you are experiencing whenever you use crypto for online payment of your bills or paying merchants by crypto. Media is too powerful in instilling the mindset of those who don't know about crypto. So start influencing the mindset of those people who are close to you.

[Baby Dragon]

That's difficult to achieve. Mainstream media is too influential to oppose, and they can manipulate and filter out the news to only publicize those negative circumstances happening in Bitcoin network.

While it's not false, the way they convey such news only and disregard the advantages of Bitcoin is where it goes wrong. And the public, of course, would always almost believe in what they see on these media, unless they have the initiative to do the opposite.

It will require some time and effort to accomplish, predominant press can have a huge impact and change the attitude of others about bitcoin. Particularly these days that individuals get easily believe what they see without analyzing it's genuine purpose. It won't be simple they are playing a huge role and somehow ruin the notoriety of bitcoin on the eyes of peoples and now they are disparaging the abilities of bitcoin without knowing how it change the life of us into a better one.