To me, most of it is about the boring parts of cryptocurrency. The actual cryptography is still interesting, the financial aspects are (to me) utterly boring. A

To me, most of it is about the boring parts of cryptocurrency. The actual cryptography is still interesting, the financial aspects are (to me) utterly boring. And a lot of the interesting bits are only tangentially related to cryptocurrency. EG this paper[1] is interesting and potentially applicable to cryptocurrency development, but is far too specialized for most of HN to discuss (and well outside the understanding of most of the cryptocurrency enthusiasts). The finance makes for poor discussions, and the interesting parts of the tech are too obscure for most HN readers to understand. And the most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, doesn't use any of the interesting parts anyway. So of course the discussions here are crap. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1530 https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1530