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I've been wondering about this recently too. I've been really interested in Algorand lately - a very impressive project with lots for an HN person to sink their

I've been wondering about this recently too. I've been really interested in Algorand lately - a very impressive project with lots for an HN person to sink their teeth into. Similar to Polkadot in various ways. But it has surprisingly few mentions on Hacker News. At first I wondered if I'd missed some guideline somewhere that cryptocurrency isn't meant to be discussed here, or that cryptocurrency stories are weighted less favourably, but I can't find any evidence of that. I remember in the earlier days of Bitcoin, Hacker News was awash with discussion of it and the entire ecosystem. And I really enjoyed reading it all!

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> I remember in the earlier days of Bitcoin, Hacker News was awash with discussion of it and the entire ecosystem. And I really enjoyed reading it all! Maybe because back in these days we didn't have an idea of what it would become. We hoped for decentralized digital currency, democratic in the sense everybody could use for payments everywhere on the web. The sad reality now is that this revolutionary design is causing trouble to our planet in a really serious way, you can't really use it to buy and sell everyday things because of high transaction fees, and it became just an object of speculation.