Welcome to BTCRead, a platform that fosters informed discussions and shares insightful content about the latest developments, concepts, and trends in the rapidly evolving crypto landscape. Cryptocurrency is emerging as a disruptive and dynamic force in this digital age.
Besides changing our perception of money and disrupting traditional financial landscapes, the digital asset ecosystem threatens to impact many industries and empower new ones. Knowledge is power, which is why BTCRead’s mission is to report relevant crypto information to as many people as possible, accurately and in a timely manner.
Since Bitcoin’s inception in 2009, the digital asset ecosystem has grown tremendously, with many people embracing its decentralized nature and trustless structure. Therefore, as crypto becomes more widespread, it is essential to report accurately and unbiasedly. Despite the major developments since the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2018, the crypto industry is based on technology, and the concept is still in its infancy stage.
Since cryptocurrency and the blockchain are new technologies, they may attract fraudsters and other malicious actors. That is why it is the responsibility of crypto media to disseminate, explain and analyse information impartially.
Here at BTCRead, we base our journalistic integrity on accuracy, transparency, impartiality, truthfulness, and responsibility, as outlined below.
Core Principles
Here are our core principles:
- Accuracy: The crypto sector is highly volatile, and any misinformation can have market-moving implications, including turning profits into losses. BTCRead is committed to publishing accurate and truthful information. So, our editorial team must fact-check and verify all the information before publication. This means providing up-to-the-minute insights and news, enabling our readers and investors to make well-informed decisions.
- Transparency: Our openness and honesty in crypto news coverage help us foster credibility and trust, especially with the widespread malpractice and fraud and insufficient regulation and oversight in the crypto industry. Transparency dispels misinformation, enhancing awareness and knowledge in the crypto community. It also helps to create a more trustworthy online environment for enthusiasts and traders. BTCRead.com uses author disclosures and disclaimers to maintain transparency.
- Impartiality: This is a key ethical standard in journalism. We are impartial in our news gathering and analysis so our readers can be confident they are consuming bias-free content. The crypto industry is extensive and highly polarizing, with buyers and sellers taking starkly divergent views and interests. BTCRead brings even-handedness by presenting the different standpoints in an unbiased manner. This means being a critic where necessary and always holding power to account while judging the subject matter on its own merit and without bias.
- Truthfulness: In an industry where the truth is sometimes hard to verify and discern, and misinformation and disinformation can spread rapidly, truthfulness is crucial. The crypto industry is based on blockchain technology, providing an incorruptible single truth source. Despite this, the integrity is not applied when framing and distributing news in the industry. We aim to find the truth and present it to you as soon as possible so you can stay up-to-date with the ingoings of the crypto industry.
- Responsibility: News and information about the crypto markets can significantly influence investor sentiment and affect virtual asset service providers’ reputations. That is why BTCRead adheres to accurate writing and responsible reporting.
Content creation process
This is the process we follow when creating BTCRead content.
- Researching and collecting data provides our team with the market trends, current developments and investor sentiment. This enables us understand current market dynamics to present you with the most relevant, accurate, well-informed and insightful content.
- Fact-checking helps to ensure we present accurate and credible information. Since the crypto industry is fast-paced, timely verification of the authenticity of the information we provide is essential. We have employed robust journalistic resources to check information directly with primary sources to verify citations, quotes, forecasts, data, and all other information. Our team cross-checks everything before it is published, including legal checks.
- Editing is a crucial step in or editorial process. Our experienced editors monitor and review all articles to maintain quality and high standards of our content. They review and monitor all articles for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and overall sense and style to present our readers with engaging content.
- Publication is the next step after editing. Once the editorial team is satisfied that an article aligns with all our core principles, we make it available to our readers through the BTCRead website, social media, and more. In addition to desktops, our content is optimized for mobile, including smartphones and tablets. While timing can be difficult in the fast-paced crypto market, we ensure our audiences have the latest information and market insights to make better decisions.
- Updating information is vital in crypto reporting. We ensure our news stories and other content reflect the industry’s current affairs, from price changes to crypto development projects to regulations. This helps our readers stay ahead of the curve.
Sourcing Guidelines
We gather information from both primary and secondary sources. Our main primary sources include project managers, crypto developers, and announcements from new crypto projects while secondary sources include expert analysts, trustworthy media outlets, and data from analysis tools. The secondary sources complement the primary sources by helping readers gain a better understanding and insights into crypto developments within the sector.
We also have a strict citation policy requiring our journalists to credit and attribute statements, data, or information to their original sources. Here are some of the reasons why we have a strict citation policy.
- Credibility: Giving credit to the original sources and including them in our citations can boost the credibility of our news reports. Readers can confirm whether the information is true from the original source.
- Transparency: Meticulous citations show we have nothing to hide, and the readers can verify the information independently.
- Avoiding plagiarism: Citations allow us to give credit to the authors of the original content rather than unethically plagiarizing their content.
- Respecting copyright: Proper citations help us adhere to copyright laws, which protect the intellectual property rights of the original source material.
- Reader education: Citations direct readers to the right resources to study deeper and understand the topic.
Ethical considerations
We uphold the highest ethical standards in our reporting to maintain our content’s integrity, credibility, and trustworthiness. Here are our key ethical considerations.
- Privacy: We respect the privacy of our readers, sources, partners, and other organizations. You can read our privacy policy to understand how we handle sensitive information.
- Security: We also must ensure a secure exchange of information between our journalists and readers. For instance, we exchange information with our journalists through end-to-end encrypted platforms. We also keep our readers updated with the latest security threats in the crypto sector and how to stay safe.
- Legal compliance: Our editorial team conducts legal checks on all our articles before publication to ensure they do not mislead readers on legal matters. We also frequently inform our readers about the crypto sector’s latest regulatory and legal developments.
Conflict of interests
- Disclosure Policies: We are fully open about our relationships with partners and affiliations with crypto projects. This allows readers to make well-informed decisions based on our news and judge any potential biases.
- Review process: We regularly conduct periodic audits of our ethical policies, transparency rules, sourcing guidelines, and content creation process to identify areas for improvement.
