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Comment by dmschulman | Hacker News Reader

Why pay for the marketing when every major news outlet in the country will continually cover the story as the price continues to rise wildly and as major financial institutions get invested?

I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?

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> Why pay for the marketing when every major news outlet in the country will continually cover the story

Marketing includes convincing news outlets to actually run that story as opposed to other stories: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

I run multiple browser plugins to block ads on my browser, but has anyone actually seen Facebook, et al ads for cryptocurrency?

Twitter is full of ads for ICOs at the moment (probably only if you are in the subset of users who are targeted).

Not specifically for a coin, but i saw a FB ad yesterday for a magical cryptocurrency script that would make you millions off a small investment. I had a good laugh

news outlets cover news about bitcoins but not stuff like 'Secret revealed: see how this couple made million dollars in 3 weeks' sort of articles.

+ also to get the initial seed interest so that these news outlets keep talking about it.

I have seen A LOT of ads from ICO and bitcoin exchanges. For articles like above, myself (and most people here) might not be the target.

Yeah, I get tons of ads for shitcoins, but I spend a lot of time on cryptocurrency sites.

I saw some ads for some cryptocurrencies on the London underground a few months ago. I think it was for some exchange, but can't be certain.

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