{"id":25917,"date":"2023-08-29T21:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=25917"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:59:53","slug":"coindesk-retracts-stories-about-sponsors-makes-implausible-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/08\/29\/coindesk-retracts-stories-about-sponsors-makes-implausible-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"CoinDesk retracts stories about sponsors, makes implausible excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CoinDesk has been doing some very odd things in the past few days. We wrote about it, and it&#8217;s up over at Amy&#8217;s. [<a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2023\/08\/29\/coindesk-retracts-stories-about-sponsors-makes-implausible-excuses\/\"><em>Amy Castor<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>There are no respectable media outlets in a crypto winter \u2014 except us, of course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/07\/03\/coindesks-new-scammer-identity-protection-rule\/coindesk-header\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17464\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coindesk-header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coindesk-header.png 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coindesk-header-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coindesk-header-348x215.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no respectable media outlets in a crypto winter \u2014 except us, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-25917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-coindesk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/coindesk-header.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25922,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions\/25922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}