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Reminds me of the time when Bitcoin was first posted to Hacker News and only got 5 upvotes and 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 https://n
by bilifuduo 8y ago
Reminds me of the time when Bitcoin was first posted to Hacker News and only got 5 upvotes and 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
- kortilla 8y agoCool, but I think the first time it received a whopping nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
- agumonkey 8y agoSays something about society's myopia. I need to research and synthetize history of projects like these. Invisible at first, diagonal .. and then booming. Mostly about people's inspiration and thinking process prior said project.
- exolymph 8y agoBooming and busting, don't forget. (My job is advocating a cryptocurrency that enables privacy through technology, but I think that cryptocurrencies should be a quite small percentage — if any — of most people's investment portfolios.)
- JrProgrammer 8y agoIt's amazing how those three comments still reflect the main opinions about crypto
- DSingularity 8y agoLol good point
- anoncake 8y ago"This is an absurd waste of energy" is missing.
- exolymph 8y agoIt's not a waste of energy according to the miners who shell out for that energy.
- jraph 8y ago"there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency"