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Note to people reading these comments: HN Is notoriously anti-bitcoin and crypto. It was within hacker news discussions that I first heard about bitcoin, back
by sixQuarks 5y ago
Note to people reading these comments: HN Is notoriously anti-bitcoin and crypto. It was within hacker news discussions that I first heard about bitcoin, back when it was trading for less than one dollar. I did not buy bitcoin because I figured the hacker news crowd was very intelligent and knew a scam when they saw one. Just Keep this in mind when reading these comments make sure you take them with a grain of salt.
- oleks 5y agoJust because you can earn money on something, does not make it good.
- mccorrinall 5y agoI think that bitcoin is actually a good solution to the double spending problem in decentralized currencies.
- pas 5y agoUm, what double spending problem? Do you mean the problem that the US has with cashing paper checks?
- mccorrinall 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending
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- jazzyjackson 5y agohey you could have lost a lot of money if you tried to cut losses when it crashed to a quarter every dollar made in bitcoin is someone else’s dollar lost, it’s a casino, nothing more
- pas 5y agoBack when slaves were cheap HN was not recommending investing in slaves. /s So that said, the hivemind has the right reasons, but that doesn't really mean much, since the world is not run according to the HN technocrat ideology. Plus, HN is not an investment forum. Aaaaand, HN loves startup stories about companies that create real proper disruptive bona fide value, like UBER/Amazon, but the early UBER/Amazon not the late sexist/market-size-abusing labor-exploiting one, you follow right?
- diveanon 5y agoHonestly. This community has a pretty terrible track record when it comes to this space. It’s obsession with web3 lately is just another indicator of web3’s growing acceptance as a major disruptive force in tech.