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The hackernews community in general is opposed to change which is ironic given that change is ultimately what has paid / is paying for their salaries. Some peo

The hackernews community in general is opposed to change which is ironic given that change is ultimately what has paid / is paying for their salaries. Some people feel very threatened by the idea of the disruption of money and all of it's controls to the extent they simply won't even entertain the idea of something new coming along. Take VC funding / angel investing - it's being blown to pieces by cryptocurrency as we speak and that's merely one example of what a cryptocurrency can do...

acdha 9y ago
> The hackernews community in general is opposed to change which is ironic given that change is ultimately what has paid / is paying for their salaries. That would be ironic if it were true but it's simply not. If you read the threads here, the heat comes from two camps: people who are pushing The Future of Economics!!! Get Rich Quick!!! and people who actually understand economics, have enough life experience to recognize bubbles, and are asking questions which the sales guys would prefer not to answer. There are plenty of good technical discussions about distributed trust here but they don't start from the breathless boosterism. They especially do not start from someone responding to serious criticism with “you just don't like change” rather than addressing it.