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I cannot help but wonder why there are only 2 comments, is it because there were very few people on HN that time or people didn't take it very seriously
by sumedh 9y ago
I cannot help but wonder why there are only 2 comments, is it because there were very few people on HN that time or people didn't take it very seriously
- SauciestGNU 9y agoOn the face of it, it's a hard thing to take seriously. A currency backed by nothing and based only on the energy expended to generate hashes? We've seen this before, in 1992, as hashcash. It didn't go anywhere then, there was no reason to think Bitcoin would be different.