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Fatigue? Half a dozen blockchain related posts hit the front-page every day, more than any other individual topic, and most of the discussions are not that grea

• nxsynonym 9y ago
  That and there's almost never any new discussion. 90% of the posts degenerate into "how do I get rich off of this?" or "it's a bubble" comments.
• Zhyl 9y ago
  > It's a bubble. > It's not a bubble. > Why can't people see it's not a bubble? > I got into bitcoin when it was still $x so I'm holding even though I know its a bubble. > <Quote from a famous person about a bubble> > <Link to an article about bubbles> Here is a summary.
  • BenoitP 9y ago
    I wish there was more discussion around the technical stuff, especially the things in the pipeline: The lightning network, Schnorr signatures, Hashed TimeLock Contracts, Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees, the Simplicity language, etc.
    • xiphias 9y ago
      Add Bulletproofs to the list. I was completely blown away by the fact that so drastic improvement happened to confidential transactions thanks to the hard work of the cryptographers. I just wish Gregory and others would create more videos and maybe even write a book on Bitcoin cryptography, it's our future, but really hard for me to keep up with understanding it.
• singularity2001 9y ago
  I'd say that it is noteworthy that the bubble is exploding (and bursting)