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What I find find interesting is how overwhelmingly negative the responses here are now, when a month ago being a skeptic was a minority position. Does that shi
by Gustomaximus 5y ago
What I find find interesting is how overwhelmingly negative the responses here are now, when a month ago being a skeptic was a minority position.
Does that shift seem recognisable to others? If correct, what's the drastic change driven from?
Edit: spelling
- WJW 5y agoA month ago skepticism about crypto was very much not a minority position on HN. AFAICT, it has been the default position for at least several years. Check out this article from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063920 or this other article from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329 or even this article from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118. In all cases people are rather reserved about it, if not outright hostile. I think it is because many on HN have a lot of technical experience and can immediately see that normal databases can do everything blockchains can at a fraction of the cost except the whole trustless thing, while everything interfacing with the real world (ie everything not a currency) will involve a lot of trust anyway. Someone has to enter the data into the oracles, for example.