This comment explains it perfectly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310174 > It's a sentiment that gets ex

This comment explains it perfectly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310174 > It's a sentiment that gets expressed under most every blockchain-related submission on HN, and I wonder why. > Maybe it's something about blockchain tech, but I have the nagging feeling that HN is just getting old and complacent. If this community had existed, in 1995, on a BBS, it probably would have found nothing but fault with the emerging web. > I can't understand why a tech-minded person would find blockchain repulsive. It's (in the case of Ethereum) the biggest and most powerful distributed computing environment. BTC has a history of no major losses or exploits in 10y of existing in the most adversarial environment I could think of. > HN meanwhile: let's get totally over-excited by a new ePaper reader with drawing functionality Good quote from @balajis: "Crypto is what comes after Silicon Valley." Defi is the new frontier, which HN and the Silicon Valley mainstream are completely missing out on it.