Only in the short term to me. When there is money to make people forget everything LOL.
But let's be honest, they also publish positive news for Bitcoin when there is something that drive traffic. There aren't many websites publishing 100% anti-bitcoin articles.
They write what bring traffic, as I say, since it's how it gives revenues.

And if you compare with the old times, many were talking bad about BTC but now in 2020, they have a cryptocurrency category on their website with a lot of different contents (news, videos, interviews, market research, analyses, etc)...

(On a side note, the Panama Papers scandal didn't give a bad reputation to the US dollar. It's just to give a comparison when it's about rep)

Yes, but mostly because people don't understand Bitcoin. To some it's an internet magic money and they already know that internet is full of scams. It's just one more to these people. I was pleasantly surprised that twitter hack didn't do more damage to bitcoin. I was sure it would be dealt as a "bitcoin hack" in the media, but people didn't seem to agree with the headlines. They seemed to understand that it had everything to do with the twitter and less with bitcoin.

Hello to all. There is no doubt that the actions of fraudsters negatively affect the image of Bitcoin. But the image, and different opinions about any branch of our life, is just a manipulation of the news coverage. Unfortunately, in the leading media, I have never heard positive comments and positive reviews about the cryptocurrency space. One can only hear that "scammers", ... "bitcoin fell again ...", "... people lost money ..." and stuff like that. I myself, when I first got acquainted with the cryptocurrency world, began to ask my friends about bitcoin, more than 90 percent of the respondents said that it was all a scam. People are too lazy to delve into the truth. Until the majority of people stumble directly with Bitcoin, and they themselves do not feel all the advantages of the cryptocurrency world, negative news will do their dirty work. Unfortunately, it is common for a person to hang labels on things that he does not understand at all, and it is very difficult to get rid of such labels later. I believe that we, who have accepted the cryptocurrency market, with all its positive and negative qualities, just need to show and tell uninitiated people the pitfalls of cryptocurrency, and without exaggeration, explain all the advantages. Well, globally, I think it's useless to do anything - basically, people in power are far from digital assets, they are poorly educated in this area, cunning, greedy and deaf to the needs of ordinary people. I think until this generation of thieves' governments leaves, nothing will change for the better. Bitcoin is a digital miracle that will pave its way for itself, but we will do our best to promote this.

Definitely as it seem that more scammers now taking the advantage of using bitcoin to scam others. There are many hackers and  scammers with bitcoin this is why users are being careful. However, still being careful is not enough because these people doing fraud are also innovative and techie that can lured one on getting scam. Just like for an example using the malicious progra that could use to phished out important details on wallet like private key. These malicious program are those like ads popping or browsers extension maybe. Anyway just always be careful.guys..

Although the scam situation that happened dont have effect on the bitcoin market but that doesnt mean bitcoin reputation was not harm or it global adoption was not affected by scam activities happening because we have some government which are planning to legalize bitcoin and the scam issue could change their mind. Besides, none of all crypto exchange site have adequate security save from hackers.

Its a big denial to say that people might ignore that, all they heard and see in the news will give them some hints to be careful in investing crypto and might also drive into doubtful minds. But for those who really believe Bitcoin and crypto will never think about it instead, they keep investing as they know that these hacking events is already a part of our life even outside crypto. We all can be possible a target to these hackers but if we anticipated it first (as most people did) they never succeed.

Since then, yes. Crypto-related scams always lead to negative impressions especially at those people who are totally unaware of what bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a whole is all about. One good example here in my country where even crypto is now highly recognized (at least), I think 6 out of 10 people (around me) will say that bitcoin is always a scam-related thing.

Fortunately, no need to really enlightened them about the issue. As crypto progress, some people here, in fairness, realized that bitcoin is not a scam and it's just been used as a tool to do some sh*t.

This kind of impression about crypto is part of the process. People have different views so let them just think about what bitcoin really is, good or bad. After all, it won't affect the adoption.

If it was in the beginning sure. First weeks, months, year? Yea, scams about Bitcoin would have harmed it quite a lot. But we're a decade from that already, I doubt scams would even affect Bitcoin that much anymore. Probably the ignorant ones, but let's be real, if they actually learned about Bitcoin, those notions would automatically disappear. I also said this in my post a few days ago, but if Bitcoin scams affected Bitcoin that much, then really, scams with fiat should've destroyed the system already. But it didn't, why? Well, most would push it up because of government backing but really, it's because Fiat is a medium, why would you blame a medium, an item, for you being scammed? Same idea with Bitcoin tbh. If that doesn't work, you can just chalk up most people ignoring Bitcoin due to scams to ignorance.

If people will educate themselves about what crypto or bitcoin is, they will know that it is the same as fiat money, which is very vulnerable to scamming. So I think, education is the key for people to understand the world of bitcoin. Without knowing its basics and just relying on the media, will not give them good grasp how crypto works.