> 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 b

> 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.