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Just a reminder, no one on hackernews took Bitcoin as anything more than just an uninteresting scam, and this was as little as 3 years ago. It was a just a bi

by ionwake 10y ago

Just a reminder, no one on hackernews took Bitcoin as anything more than just an uninteresting scam, and this was as little as 3 years ago. It was a just a big joke. It was invented in 2008 and it was appearing in conferences around 2011. But by summer 2013 , there still had not been one article on the front page about bitcoin. I seem to remember comments on here mostly just deriding it if it was ever mentioned. (Please correct me if I am wrong). I just feel this is important to share, not even HN knows what a hot technology is, even if it has been in the same room for years. It is interesting and sometimes I wonder what other emergent tech is on the scene which many know little about.

solotronics 10y ago
revolutionary things are rejected by the establishment at first
- ionwake 10y ago
  I mean if the HN crowd can't recognise an intriguing new emergent technology, who does? I am genuinely interested to know.
  - JBReefer 10y ago
    What if we get it, but don't think it's intriguing?
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andrewpi 10y ago
I'm not sure why you say that. There are plenty of bitcoin stories on HN going back far longer than 3 years. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631
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suchabag 10y ago
Well I learned about bitcoin back in 2011 on the front page of HN.
ISL 10y ago
There were so many bitcoin posts around the time bitcoin first hit $60 that they were getting actively flagged from sheer repetitiveness. People definitely took it seriously. I suspect that per-capita Bitcoin holding among HN readers is far higher than the national or world average.
sprobertson 10y ago
People get it and follow it. But there have been very few stories worth discussion here - for example this link is literally a price chart. Most news I've heard in the last few years centers around internal politicking.
urza 10y ago
These are actually pretty exciting times in cryptocurrency scene. If you dont know about Monero, check it out. It is starting to catch momentum. It solved the fungibility problem that Bitcoin has, is build on solid base and https://www.reddheads.com/en/is-monero-what-cryptocurrency-was-supposed-to-be/ https://www.reddheads.com/en/is-monero-what-cryptocurrency-w...
xiphias 10y ago
I bought Bitcoins when I read this at HN by pg in March of 2013 (BTC was about $70): I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it's derided as a toy. Just like microcomputers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402424

by ionwake 10y ago

solotronics 10y ago

revolutionary things are rejected by the establishment at first

ionwake 10y ago
I mean if the HN crowd can't recognise an intriguing new emergent technology, who does? I am genuinely interested to know.
- JBReefer 10y ago
  What if we get it, but don't think it's intriguing?

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andrewpi 10y ago

I'm not sure why you say that. There are plenty of bitcoin stories on HN going back far longer than 3 years. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631

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suchabag 10y ago

Well I learned about bitcoin back in 2011 on the front page of HN.

ISL 10y ago

There were so many bitcoin posts around the time bitcoin first hit $60 that they were getting actively flagged from sheer repetitiveness. People definitely took it seriously. I suspect that per-capita Bitcoin holding among HN readers is far higher than the national or world average.

sprobertson 10y ago

People get it and follow it. But there have been very few stories worth discussion here - for example this link is literally a price chart. Most news I've heard in the last few years centers around internal politicking.

urza 10y ago

These are actually pretty exciting times in cryptocurrency scene. If you dont know about Monero, check it out. It is starting to catch momentum. It solved the fungibility problem that Bitcoin has, is build on solid base and https://www.reddheads.com/en/is-monero-what-cryptocurrency-was-supposed-to-be/ https://www.reddheads.com/en/is-monero-what-cryptocurrency-w...

xiphias 10y ago

I bought Bitcoins when I read this at HN by pg in March of 2013 (BTC was about $70): I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it's derided as a toy. Just like microcomputers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402424