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Instead of calling him out over his "obsession," please try to respond to his argument. Is he wrong? Is he making incorrect assertions? I am genuinely curiou

by tps5 10y ago

Instead of calling him out over his "obsession," please try to respond to his argument. Is he wrong? Is he making incorrect assertions? I am genuinely curious. I don't know a lot about cryptography, blockchains, bitcoins, etc. I try to take everything with a grain of salt, but seeing two knowledgeable people civilly discussing the merits of these things would be interesting. Calling someone out for "being obsessed" isn't. To use your angular analogy, if someone went around criticizing angular everywhere, I'd like to see a discussion between that person and a pro-angular guy. Because I guarantee there are smart people and good points to be made on both sides of that argument.

heliumcraft 10y ago
Well I'm sure someone has engaged him before so I don't think I would be particulary productive. Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses, regarless it's also very easy to criticize something and far more interesting to find solutions, you can critize the current decentralization tech much like you could easily criticize and dimiss this internet thing in 1984. I was just genuinely curious about his motivations. My example with angular is that even though I really don't like it, I wouldnt want to waste time criticizing it or stopping people who want to advance it.
- tps5 10y ago
  >Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses Such as?
  - heliumcraft 10y ago
    for e.g the article claiming "100 bugs per 1000" takes a crapy contract and considers refactors as bugs, critizes well known things to take into account, and generally exagerates. Another example, is the infamous 'solar exploit' article (since then slightly modified due to criticism), which is written by someone with a financial interest against ethereum (due to owning a startup with a competing product) essentially makes a claim equivalent to saying the internet is broken because you can do this in nodejs http://i.imgur.com/QGofSuo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QGofSuo.jpg

by tps5 10y ago

heliumcraft 10y ago

Well I'm sure someone has engaged him before so I don't think I would be particulary productive. Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses, regarless it's also very easy to criticize something and far more interesting to find solutions, you can critize the current decentralization tech much like you could easily criticize and dimiss this internet thing in 1984. I was just genuinely curious about his motivations. My example with angular is that even though I really don't like it, I wouldnt want to waste time criticizing it or stopping people who want to advance it.

tps5 10y ago
>Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses Such as?
- heliumcraft 10y ago
  for e.g the article claiming "100 bugs per 1000" takes a crapy contract and considers refactors as bugs, critizes well known things to take into account, and generally exagerates. Another example, is the infamous 'solar exploit' article (since then slightly modified due to criticism), which is written by someone with a financial interest against ethereum (due to owning a startup with a competing product) essentially makes a claim equivalent to saying the internet is broken because you can do this in nodejs http://i.imgur.com/QGofSuo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QGofSuo.jpg