&gt; Intensify Discussion: Any news that could be perceived as negative must be amplified to extremes and made into hyperbolic worst-case scenarios.<p>Isn&#x27;t this kind of thing just natural? Don&#x27;t reporters do this on their own for everything? The author&#x27;s entire paper seems geared into convincing us there&#x27;s some dark forces at work. A conspiracy maybe?? To someone that doesn&#x27;t care about cryptocurrency it just comes off as... silly.<p>It feels to me that people who love bitcoins make their whole world into some binary existence about the currency either moving forward or why it&#x27;s being held back because of XYZ.