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HN really shows how little it knows about the defi landscape whenever posts like this show up.

• allemagne 5y ago
  My prior is that Proof of Work is a solid basis for an (inefficient and tautological) form of digital scarcity, or even a public random number generator, but nearly every crypto application outside of that seems to range from trivial, to mania, to downright fraud. Assuming I do want to understand the DeFi landscape (and willing to suspend my disbelief some amount to do so), where is a good place to begin?
  • diveanon 5y ago
    Twitter and telegram are where most of the communities live. There are thousands of people there more than happy to show you the ropes.
• danielvf 5y ago
  As someone working full time in this, it is terrifying how inaccurate many comments in this thread are.
  • diveanon 5y ago
    Likewise, I'm doing web stack consulting for several defi projects right now and the vast majority of what comes out of HN is straight up uneducated FUD. This forum is pretentious on its good days, and when it comes to crypto it is just willfully ignorant.
    • lostmsu 5y ago
      It would be more helpful for the community if you pointed out the flaws. Even without much DeFi experience I can see some comments are simple dismissals without understanding the enormity of technical details, which is a fatal mistake in the field. Not many explanations of why those dismissals are wrong though.