3 ms·

What's special about today and increasing frequency of these posts?

• nemo44x 6y ago
  BTC has surged which leads to a general interest in the topic. People looking for clicks try and figure out new ways to talk about the subject using whichever lens suits their agenda/objective and their audiences interests/convictions.
• sherlock_h 6y ago
  Nothing special - that’s the problem. I consider a good HN post one where I learn something from the post and the discussion underneath it. Crypto posts for me at least typically don’t bring me learning from either. Discussions tend to all be along pretty similar patterns - either you’re pro or against. If pro, you talk about decentralization and money transfer in developing countries, if con about energy usage and criminal activity. Not that interesting
• fenk85 6y ago
  There seems to be some sort of smear campaign to smear cryptocurrencies as anti-green anti-environmental Which is a bit absurd as you can pick anything in modern world, literally anything such as computers/phones in front of us reading this and point that XYZ damage was caused to the planet by the shiny macbook in front of us or android phone, not to mention the huge network of datacenters around the world from which the information is stored/streamed. Until there is highly efficient zero loss superconductor long range networks of several orders of magnitude better energy storage then saying that energy "is wasted" on crypto is very misleading, that energy could be coming from a dam up in a mountain enjoying a sudden influx of rain or windmills/solar in middle of nowhere with no nearby large population centers to absorb this energy (lack of efficient long range transmission infrastructure and/or energy storage).
• briankelly 6y ago
  Nothing else to talk about I guess. Coming on a year for pandemic restrictions in US/much of the west.