3 ms·
In fairness to the present, the first post on HN about bitcoin[1] had 3 comments: 1) this is amazing and will save humanity 2) this is dumb no one will ever u
by larrysalibra 5y ago
In fairness to the present, the first post on HN about bitcoin[1] had 3 comments:
1) this is amazing and will save humanity
2) this is dumb no one will ever use it
3) this is confusing
That ratio doesn’t seem that much different than recent posts.
I think you’re right that most people at least on HN have decided what they believe when it comes to bitcoin.
Ultimately money is a belief and not just any belief but one so central to our identities that we often organize our lives around how we can get enough money.
Strong beliefs get tied into our identities so that threats to those beliefs will be viewed as many as attacks on their identities.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
- reginold 5y agoIs there a place for the #1 group to go for curious conversation? (Curious conversation requires subtracting out the speculation about price and money)
- kayamon 5y agoI've been following Alex Gladstein[1] on Twitter and there's been lots of interesting podcasts and other discussions worth checking out. [1] https://twitter.com/gladstein https://twitter.com/gladstein
- reginold 5y agoThanks for the suggestion! Looks like a great rec, I see he retweeted some kind of debate that looks interesting. I'm pretty dubious of Twitter as a platform though. There's so much other stuff, and Twitter injects its own crapola into the feeds too. I've bookmarked his profile instead, look forward to checking it out.
- glenvdb 5y agoIf you're interested, but want to skip the noise on Twitter, uou can read most of his work in regards to Bitcoin and its humanitarian impact here: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein
- reginold 5y agoThanks! I had not realized bitcoinmagazine could be a good source. I had grouped it in with other crypto media junk like cointelgraph.