Crypto content... it s mostly terrible for the average person. Jargon-filled articles that leave you more confused. Content that thinks you have a computer science degree.

Stories for insiders. We re Coinminutes Cryptocurrency and we were sick of seeing people bounce off our stories because they did know what we were talking about. We decided to try this instead.

We then wondered: What if crypto news was for everyone?

Understanding the Importance of Crypto Content that Embraces Everyone

The same type of people are always catered to when it comes to crypto media publications. Young, tech-savvy guys who can easily differentiate a blockchain from a smart contract.

However, the crazy thing is that these people are not the ones that are using crypto worldwide.

These are the countries, Nigeria, Vietnam, and the Philippines, which have been ranked amongst the top globally in crypto adoption. However, most of the crypto content is produced by the Silicon Valley writers who have never facilitated a remittance transaction or been affected by unstable local currencies.

It became crystal clear to us that our blind spot was as big as Texas.

Women account for less than half of the crypto users, and when we are honest with ourselves, most crypto contents hardly give women a chance. The tone, the examples, the assumptions - everything is geared towards a particular demographic.

Besides that, there is the accessibility problem. A screen reader will be able to help you if you are trying to read a complicated DeFi article. Or if you are colorblind and the chart you are looking at only uses red and green, how will you understand it?

We conducted a reader survey last year and what we found was very impactful: about 60% of the people that came to our articles were gone within 30 seconds. Not because the info was not correct, but because it was too difficult or not applicable to their experience.

That was the moment when CoinMinutes felt the urge to completely overhaul its content strategy.

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CoinMinutes Core Inclusive Content Strategies

Multilingual chatter commenced. Nor was it just some Google Translate thing. We work with native linguists who are crypto-knowledgeable and market specialists. So when we are talking about Bitcoin mining in Spanish, we refer to energy costs in Latin America rather than California.

We even eliminated the tech-speak. Now each piece is put through a "grandma test". Literal humor? We rewire. We maintain precision but cease the pretense - no more cramming articles with jargon.

Furthermore, we clarified our types. Some folk get knowledge from books. People actually listen to podcasts while driving. Visual learners might prefer an infographic. Those days of assuming everyone is hacking the same stacks of content are well gone.

Besides, we thought about usability. Every visual has descriptive alternative text. Transcripts come with the films. Color palettes are chosen to be globally usable. It s common courtesy and frankly, CoinMinutes ought to have been doing this from day one.

Diverse Representation in Content Creation

We totally overhauled our writer roster. We now have team members on SIX different continents. We ve got writers who have worked in traditional finance, in software development, in community organizing, and in disability advocacy.

E.g., one of our contributors explains how Bitcoin remittances are happening today in Central America (this isn t a topic that will be covered in most Cryptocurrency Market publications), another contributor writes about institutional adoption in Asia, which is completely different from how it is happening in the US. Different perspectives are not just good PR talk.

Yes, it is useful. When we reported on the central bank digital currency launch in Nigeria our Nigerian correspondent picked up on some details that the international newswires totally missed. Different eyes ask different questions.

Different questions elicit better answers.

Community-Driven Collaboration

Our audience basically morphed into our editorial staff.

Every month, we distribute questionnaires to find out what subjects stump folks. Our subjects steer our subsequent reporting. When 200 folks claim they have no idea what yield farming is, come right up with the answer that week are we.

Prior to release, we assembled regional reading groups to critique our drafts. They expose the cultural biases we thought we didn t have.

Feedback is no longer filler for us. Whenever a subsequent question is posed, we frequently transform the reply into a separate article.

Honestly, a lot of the coolest story concepts are contributed by you, the readers, who have seen what we ve overlooked. Locals report on the ground happenings in their crypto communities providing CoinMinutes exclusives.

Continuous Improvement and Accountability

Continuous Improvement and Accountability We measure our success at this inclusion game. Every quarter, we examine who is reading our stuff and how they are engaging with it. If any group is not staying, we find out why not and we fix it.

We regularly have 3rd-party accessibility audits. When they find an issue, we address it urgently with no excuses.

We produce an annual report on our diversity goals, and while it s not always a pretty picture, we believe the transparency required to report the data keeps us honest with ourselves and our readers. We have bias recognition and inclusive writing training for all of our writers.

Everything is ongoing, because it s difficult and everyone is still learning.

Conclusion

Creating inclusive content isn t an act of kindness, it s smart business and the morally correct thing to do.

As we broadened our scope from a crypto-only to a more general readership, our following increased. Our material improved. Stories that totally slipped past others , we caught.

Now crypto media brands are trying to do what we do. Fantastic! Access to cryptocurrency data for all is the key to the benefit of all.

This isn t finished. Cryptocurrency is in a state of constant change, as are the obstructions preventing folks from diving in. With every innovative leap, CoinMinutes ponders: how can we make this accessible to all?

We re not looking to simplify. It s to smart things up - to go to the essence without losing the high thing.

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