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We do not like blockchains because it was something nasty / fraud-y marketers stole from us, and went ahead to make huge sums of money. From something that actu
by rolleiflex 8y ago
We do not like blockchains because it was something nasty / fraud-y marketers stole from us, and went ahead to make huge sums of money. From something that actually had tech potential, but wasn't ready yet.
It was a quick introduction to 'how the world works' for a lot of us.
Adding insult to injury, some of us joined the marketers for the scraps and gave them undue legitimacy. This was on HN a few weeks ago, explains the whole phenomenon based on three types: Geeks, Mops, Sociopaths. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths (And we're mostly all 'geeks' here, by his definition.)
And this is not sour grapes — I first heard of Bitcoin in 2010, when it was 3 cents. I didn't make any money out of it, but I've not 'missed out' in any real sense.