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I have four theories about it: 1. People are afraid of their current skills and knowledge becoming obsolete. This is similar to people being hostile to the clo

by kennu 5y ago

I have four theories about it: 1. People are afraid of their current skills and knowledge becoming obsolete. This is similar to people being hostile to the cloud 10 years ago and serverless 5 years ago. 2. People are bitter because they see others profiting from the current crypto boom/bubble, and they didn't buy into it early enough or at all. 3. People are genuinely worried about the darker aspects (non-renewable energy usage, scams, illegal activities) and for some reason they blame the technology rather than the actors actually engaging in those activities. 4. People are problem/solution-oriented rather than vision-oriented. If they don't see an immedate relationship between an existing problem and a technical solution to it, they don't consider the new technology to have merit. These are just some theoretical reasons I think might explain people feeling so hostile.

helen___keller 5y ago
I identify strongly with 2,4 and weakly with 3. I actually don’t feel entirely hostile towards crypto (I dabble and keep up with the latest to see if/when things will get interesting) but I tend to write very negatively about current blockchain technologies and utopian vision about them Also, you’re missing another reason: we’re entering an age of techno-pessimism. After the techno optimism of the 90s and aughts, a lot of people were let down by the consequences that this technology had on society. Tracking across the internet, widespread misinformation and post-truth, total dominance by a handful of corporate behemoths, etc. some people are inspired by the anti-corporate message of this article, other people just feel burned from the optimism of the last few decades and what it became
- helen___keller 5y ago
  Another one: the fact that every crypto evangelist by definition tends to have a strong financial motivation to pump their preferred coin means the entire ecosystem has a feeling of fakery around it: is X coin actually useful or just another pump n dump??
jiveturkey42 5y ago
Thank you for an honest answer. I've also observed that cryptocurrency enthusiasts have a orientation towards high-risk, which is a different mindset than most engineers who prefer reliability and predicability

by kennu 5y ago

helen___keller 5y ago

I identify strongly with 2,4 and weakly with 3. I actually don’t feel entirely hostile towards crypto (I dabble and keep up with the latest to see if/when things will get interesting) but I tend to write very negatively about current blockchain technologies and utopian vision about them Also, you’re missing another reason: we’re entering an age of techno-pessimism. After the techno optimism of the 90s and aughts, a lot of people were let down by the consequences that this technology had on society. Tracking across the internet, widespread misinformation and post-truth, total dominance by a handful of corporate behemoths, etc. some people are inspired by the anti-corporate message of this article, other people just feel burned from the optimism of the last few decades and what it became

helen___keller 5y ago
Another one: the fact that every crypto evangelist by definition tends to have a strong financial motivation to pump their preferred coin means the entire ecosystem has a feeling of fakery around it: is X coin actually useful or just another pump n dump??

jiveturkey42 5y ago

Thank you for an honest answer. I've also observed that cryptocurrency enthusiasts have a orientation towards high-risk, which is a different mindset than most engineers who prefer reliability and predicability