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I remember back in 2014 when there was a new Javascript framework on the front page of HN every day. Now it's a new blockchain heist. This can't continue, righ

• ringaroundthetx 9y ago
  of course it can, it will just stop being international news every time single time. if the same standard was made for national currency heists over electronic means, your feed would have nothing else in it. ACH Fraud alone is still in the hundreds of millions every year, and in US has at least 3 federal government agencies tracking and trying to address it, for decades. cryptocurrency is comparably much easier to solidify and upgrade, while educating on best practices.