Mostly Bitcoin is a news aggregator that tracks mainstream media coverage of cryptocurrency.

I built it in 2014 when we launched Coin Center when there was much less media coverage of our issues. The idea is simple, it ignores crypto-specific trade publications and shows articles mentioning crypto only from the legacy media.

The wonderful Feedbin is the backend. It’s not what the service is meant to be used for, but it provides a nice API and why not. There I subscribe to dozens of publications and then set a saved query for the relevant search terms. That saved query can be accessed via the API giving me a feed of crypto content from the mainstream press. I put this in to a SQLite database and then query that and do a little parsing to create the webpage. Pretty straightforward.

I’ve toyed with article clustering like on TechMeme, but it’s not worth the effort given the relatively low volume of stories these days. A single page with last 24 hours gives one a nice quick snapshot of the moment.

Last updated November 18, 2025