Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are struggling to gain mainstream awareness and adoption, with much media coverage (understandably) focused on bitcoin's get-rich-quick potential and its popularity with criminals...
While the mainstream media's interest has focused on bitcoin and crypto's shady but exciting underworld, bitcoin and crypto dedicated websites have sought to provide fair and balanced coverage ofNow, following search giant Google’s June 2019 Core Update, which rolled out on June 3, one of the biggest bitcoin and crypto sites, CCN.
The sudden drop in traffic to bitcoin and cryptocurrency websites has caused editors to question whether this was an intentional attempt to undermine their coverage of the cryptocurrency sector.wrote CCN founder Jonas Borchgrevink, announcing the site's closure "While all major crypto focused sites have taken a hit by Google’s June 2019 Core Update, other sites that are not affiliated with cryptocurrencies have experienced a startlingly similar impact.""We have tried to find out why our stories are no longer visible on Google by asking for guidance in Google’s Webmasters Forum.
"I am personally calling media organizations across the world to fight this hideous practice by Google, that basically can, with a snap of its fingers, decide who will thrive and who will die within a matter of minutes," Borchgrevink wrote.
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