You don't need a study, but you need some sort of base to the claim.
Your anecdote tells us nothing, I know many non-whites who got rich from crypto.
Not everything requires a study, but when writing an article you should back your click/race-bait claims up with facts if you just HAVE to put them in there. Maybe just leave it out since it wasn't relevant.
Journalists should cite every claim they make, even if it's tacked on and only a sentence long. Especially if it's a bold race-baiting one.
> What I can't figure out is are you just rules lawyering at this point or do you actually believe its not a problem.
It's a baseless racist assertion that can be taken out without detracting from the article.
MSM loves to race bait. Race relations are rough enough, it's irresponsible.
But when you call them out "oh they don't need to source every sentence". Ok.
> You are not going to ask them to cite the dictionary for each word, would you?
A word is not a claim, that is ridiculous. Noone is disputing the word "white" they are disputing that bitcoin only made a handful of whites richer.
GP can't prove a negative. It's on the journalist to source their assertions.
I personally know a few dozen people who used it in Brazil, Portugal, Japan, and India early on.
I'd say I know more non-whites than whites who used it.
That's just an anecdote, but it's more information than the racist journalist had.
Have some, or even many, non-whites like yourself earned some wealth resulting from crypto gambling? Sure. But that’s not the point they’re making.
did you just call me a non-white? it almost sounds derogatory in the context of your post. I guess since I'm just a "Non-white", my only interaction with crypto could have been through a lens of gambling, since I'm so unsophisticated and weak in comparison to white people (in your apparent belief).
Seriously, look at the tone of your posts, jfc. All of you morally superior self hating whites are the same, at work, on this shitty website, and in SV tech in general. At the very basal level, you actually look down on non whites, you think we're uncapable in comparison. The only respite I get from your type of racism is on places like 4chan, ironically, the most racist place on the internet. But at least there's some fucking moral clarity there
very nice of you to assume it was crypto gambling, rather than an academic interest in cryptography. I'm a crypto punk, through and through, in the classical "I used to go on sketchy IRCs as a kid" sense. I was telling people at college parties to buy bitcoin because I was a CS student, a long fucking time ago.
And crypto isn't about some unclear moral platitude that you have about some "egalitarian" paradise. It's about telling the government to go fuck themselves and having the freedom to do whatever the fuck I want to, without anyone knowing. Cryptocurrency was about buying adderall on the darknet, not "helping disadvantaged non-whites"
finally, the people who's faces are on the list of "crypto rich" are the people who failed. The real crypto rich people aren't known by anyone, because they know what they're doing
Second, you identified your race, not me ("Pretty insulting to a non white person..."). And you're ascribing feelings to me that I do not possess, nor that have I expressed or intended to imply. I'm sorry you think that way, but it's simply not true. I truly believe that technical acumen is something within the reach of all races and that no race is superior. It is the financial means to leverage wealth into even more wealth that is unevenly distributed, and that distribution greatly favors white men. That's just an incontrovertible fact.
Everyone investing in crypto is gambling, regardless of race. So if you're going to be insulted by that, know that it's not a race thing; everyone can be equally insulted by that if they so choose.
Expected nothing less from Time...