> and you don't find it rather peculiar that the concentration of anti-crypto rhetoric has suddenly spiked about a year ago, and now there's a relentless assault from all opinion outlets?

When the price goes up, people are happy and write happy articles. When the price goes down, people are sad and write sad articles. How that actually happens is that, the people writing the happy and sad articles are different groups of people who each wait for the price to do what they need it to justify their position.

The price is down, so it justifies negative positions. When the price is up in ~3 years, there will be more people writing happy articles. When that happens I won't think they've all been paid to (even though it is obviously more likely that the group selling something has financial interest in promoting it).

The funny thing about media bias is that people assume it's dark forces conspiring about what information to feed the public, but the reality is that a stronger bias is simply “who is willing to show up to talk about it in an entertaining way”.

There have traditionally been more of these on the pro-crypto side, because not many people devote time to talking about it unless they're getting paid, and there's not much money in being anti-crypto. There are some people (like me) who do it anyway, though, and TV bookers/publications have become better at finding us.