HN has a surprising amount of luddites. In this case though it's just a matter of people being mad they missed out. It's embarrassing for them since the world p

HN has a surprising amount of luddites. In this case though it's just a matter of people being mad they missed out. It's embarrassing for them since the world presumes all hackers cashed in on Bitcoin. So they feel like failures for not seeing it and rationalize by dismissing cryptocurrencies altogether.