Bitcoin in the News : 2018-05 Price

Odd numbered month down, even numbered month up? That was the trend in last month's Bitcoin in the News : 2018-04 Price, which continued in the month of May. A handful of months does not make a trend, but it does make a lead paragraph.

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Index

As for the other stalwart of these monthly '20YY-MM Price' posts, Cointelegraph's Analysis category (note that the title of the page has changed for the second time in two months), had 18 stories in May. Last month I tried to categorize the category:-

That makes a total of five dimensions for classifying cryptocurrency discussions. I'll see how this holds up in May.

Here is my tentative classification of the 18 stories for May.

Geographic:

• 2018-05-01: Banks And Cryptocurrencies Global Evaluation: Americas
• 2018-05-15: Despite Ongoing Probes, ICO Legalization in the Cards in South Korea
• 2018-05-24: Poland Continues Its Aggression Towards Crypto, But the Community Shows Force
• 2018-05-29: Iran: Crypto Adoption or Rejection?

Regulatory:

• 2018-05-05: “It Never Was a Security”: Ethereum Under The Regulatory Spotlight
• 2018-05-17: Cases Of Illegal Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Mining: Chicken Farms And New York
• 2018-05-26: SEC, CFTC, IRS And Others: A Guide To US Regulating Bodies

Predictive:

• 2018-05-11: Financial Institutions In A Race: Who Will Bring Crypto Trading To The Fiat Masses First?
• 2018-05-25: Bitcoin’s Falling Price Nothing More Than Perception, Or Is There Manipulation?

Coin-specific: I called this 'Specific' in May, but the title is so vague that I kept referring to the previous post to remind me what it meant.

• 2018-05-03: How To Diversify Away Risk In A Crypto Portfolio: Correlation And Variance
• 2018-05-24: Top Ethereum Token Protocols Which May Replace ERC20
• 2018-05-29: 7 Myths About Ethereum Decentralization
• 2018-05-31: Bitcoin For America: Cryptocurrencies In Campaign Finance

Technological:

• 2018-05-03: Revenues Down, Hashrates Up: 2018 Mining Outlook By The Numbers
• 2018-05-06: A Glimpse Into The Future - What Happens When There Are No More Bitcoin To Mine?
• 2018-05-13: Women In Blockchain And Crypto: How To Tackle Gender Inequality
• 2018-05-17: Blockchain For Elections: Advantages, Cases, Challenges
• 2018-05-18: Why JP Morgan’s Blockchain Patent Application Is Not That Surprising

The classification held up well enough, although sometimes it's a toss-up: Should 'Ethereum Under The Regulatory Spotlight' be considered 'Regulatory' or is it 'Coin-specific'? It's both, but I don't want to introduce a matrix classification for an off-hand experiment. Another gray area is 'Women In Blockchain And Crypto'. Is this really 'Technological'?

As for the last discussion point in the '2018-04 Price' post, the Cointelegraph technical analysis, the articles stopped appearing end-April. That's a pity, because I was just starting to get a feel for cryptocoin technicals.