El Toque’s informal exchange rate is used by taxi drivers, restaurateurs, and small businesses across the island. It’s also grown the news site’s traffic tenfold.
Five months after its failed token sale, Civil is back with a revised, streamlined process. If you’re not an experienced cryptocurrency trader, though, it’ll still take you a while.
Because Civil’s token sale flopped last month, a lot of its journalists haven’t been given the compensation they were led to expect. But even if it does eventually arrive, will it be worth…anything?
“I would love to see us as a broader journalism community, people who care about sustainable and quality journalism, harness the power of new technologies rather than be the victims of it.”
The Nieman Lab staffers failed. So did Manoush Zomorodi, a cofounder of one of the new Civil-backed newsrooms that’s leaning on the promises of the company’s forthcoming cryptocurrency sale in August.
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Wang, Shan. "Want to support journalism with cryptocurrency on Civil? First you must pass this really hard quiz." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Jul. 2018. Web. 18 Oct. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2018, Jul. 25). Want to support journalism with cryptocurrency on Civil? First you must pass this really hard quiz. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/want-to-support-journalism-with-cryptocurrency-on-civil-first-you-must-pass-this-really-hard-quiz/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Want to support journalism with cryptocurrency on Civil? First you must pass this really hard quiz." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 25, 2018. Accessed October 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/want-to-support-journalism-with-cryptocurrency-on-civil-first-you-must-pass-this-really-hard-quiz/.
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