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The type of person hackernews respects the most - a billionaire - told them that their favourite toy is bad.

• rawtxapp 6y ago
  Bitcoin is anything but HN's favorite toy.
  • forgetfulness 6y ago
    Majority opinions seem to lean towards Bitcoin being a net detriment to society but HN will attract a really loud minority of Bitcoin diehards, for tech or profit. Or so I thought, the amount of people taking offense at Bill Gates saying the uncontroversial is impressive.
    • rawtxapp 6y ago
      Maybe there's some overlap between HN anti-crypto crowd and those who remember Bill Gates track record at MSFT (ex: IE antitrust, anti-Linux).
    • mattwilsonn888 6y ago
      Arguing from the conclusion, are we?
      • forgetfulness 6y ago
        I mean I'm going by precedent, there's popular HN threads every so often decrying the externalities or lack of utility of Bitcoin, the comments supporting the articles rise to the top but there's a handful of people saying that Bitcoin is still worth it somehow. Now there's a lot of people attacking Bill Gates for lending his image to the arguments. It could be that there's a majority of Bitcoin believers here but they don't usually care for arguments and just do "he he miner goes brrr" until a celebrity billionaire appears.