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For what it’s worth, you might not get great answers here. HackerNews readers tend to have a relatively negative view on crypto, and many people involved in the
by ghayes 6y ago
For what it’s worth, you might not get great answers here. HackerNews readers tend to have a relatively negative view on crypto, and many people involved in the space thus tend to avoid discussing crypto here to avoid accidentally getting into a flame war. If you’re interested, I might suggest reading Coindesk or visiting the Discord or Telegram of interesting projects.
- lucb1e 6y agoI find that there is a reasonable percentage of people here that look at what problems it actually solves versus handwavey marketing magic. It's fanboy chat groups where I would expect the discussion of whether it's actually useful to be avoided (or be overwhelmed by those with skin in various kinds of blockchain game), but I'd be happy to be wrong. Why not link them if you say there is better content available elsewhere?
- seibelj 6y agoCorrect. There is a core group here that advocates the positive elements, I know many prominent people who occasionally comment here but get downvoted a lot. For example https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vbuterin https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vbuterin Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, occasionally posts here. I myself am the head of all blockchain engineering at Poloniex, a large and old crypto currency exchange. I try and advocate for this industry but it is very difficult vs. all other technologies.
- gge 6y agoTwitter is also good for crypto discussion.