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The fact that every time a blockchain/crypto thread hits HN and many of the responses are talking about time stamps is in itself a bit of a meme. Seems very rem
by slickrick216 6y ago
The fact that every time a blockchain/crypto thread hits HN and many of the responses are talking about time stamps is in itself a bit of a meme. Seems very reminisce of people in ages gone by talking about what was the point for any advances from trains to telegram to the internet. The answer for what to use it for is to make things trust less and decentralized if you can’t see the advantage or limitless possibilities there I don’t know what to say. Smart contracts will change the world without the world even knowing.
- kylebenzle 6y agoHN hates Bitcoin. I have never seen such a smart group of idiots in my life.
- cft 6y agoThat's because now HN is mostly FAANG employees. FAANG is naturally opposed to Bitcoin because it's difficult for them to imagine how they would control it. When it rallied to 20000, they only saw it as a threat.
- NotUsingLinux 6y agoBlub paradox
- seibelj 6y agoFor such a group of “hackers” they have an extreme aversion to hacking on their own alternative financial system. The ethos of the community has been co-opted by conformism.
- wyldfire 6y agoBitcoin is great, but could be improved upon. Some interesting cryptocoins out there. But there's an enormous amount of dead weight P&D tokens and shitcoins that turn a lot of folks off. Plus there were a lot of businesses in the 2010s who decided to make some kind of centralized-bit-distributed-conensus version of some thing like supply chain. It's easy to be cynical with so many of these popping up.
- slickrick216 6y agoAgreed there’s a lot of rug pulls out there but you got to take the good with the bad in cycles like this it’s a gold rush just like the many that have gone before it