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I am afraid that too many of the HN visitors have a stake in crypto and may downvote/ flag articles that may hurt their bottom line. In some sense it is funny
by louwrentius 5y ago
I am afraid that too many of the HN visitors have a stake in crypto and may downvote/ flag articles that may hurt their bottom line.
In some sense it is funny that those are the same people that rave about perceived anti-censorship properties of crypto.
- ur-whale 5y ago> may downvote/ flag articles that may hurt their bottom line. No such thing as bad publicity, or so they say.
- carlosdp 5y agoThere are plenty of articles every day talking about how crypto is a scam or w/e. Anyone that's worried about one more on the pile is being irrational. No amount blog articles is going to materially impact the long-term outlook of web3/crypto projects that aren't the actual scams/cash-grabs. =)
- thebean11 5y agoAnti crypto articles are at the top of hackernews every other day, your worry seems unfounded. HN is more skeptical of crypto than the general tech audience in my experience (compared to my SWE coworkers).
- mclightning 5y agoI observe a similar thing in HN. I suspect HN gathers a specific type of techie-crowd, who has missed out on the crypto-scene while working hard on "conventional" tech projects. I have been and I feel the sentiment. HN is not exactly an early-adopter community for a specific time period (say 5 years of early inception of a new tech). It is a busy-working community.