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Refuting crypto is an exercise in futility, because there are only two types of people in that space: True believers who act like literal cultists and who are b
by this_user 5y ago
Refuting crypto is an exercise in futility, because there are only two types of people in that space: True believers who act like literal cultists and who are beyond the reach of rational arguments and hustlers who understand that it is nonsense, but will never admit that, because they are just there to make money from the first group.
- md2020 5y agoTerrible comment, this isn’t Reddit. Take your smugness somewhere else please.
- apatters 5y agoNot sure why this is getting downvoted - to some degree or another it describes the majority of the crypto enthusiasts I know. Furthermore I'm not even going to bother sending them this paper because I know that most of them rarely read anything longer than a Tweet.
- seanhunter 5y agoIt's being downvoted because these kinds of black and white arguments which just call people names don't actually add anything to understanding. There are plenty of people other than died-in-the-wool haters or blind enthusiasts/hucksters. I personally fall between those two camps as do several others in these threads.
- fastball 5y agoWell you describe them as "crypto enthusiasts" so maybe the part of the crypto community you are interacting with is self-selecting?
- capableweb 5y ago> Not sure why this is getting downvoted I'm not entirely sure either (and I didn't, for the record) but I could imagine why people would. Grouping a huge industry into just two groups generally is seen as over-simplification, and I would agree with that. There are clearly people working in the space that don't fit in in either groups.
- mrfox321 5y agoEven users on HN use downvote to "disagree" even if the intended functionality is to denote the comment as "low quality" or "irrelevant".
- capableweb 5y agoI guess I'm not really "in that space" even though I work with various companies who call their projects "cryptocurrencies", as I'm neither of those two groups. Maybe there is a third group: Believes that are some uses with cryptocurrencies, but most of the space is over-hyped, but that doesn't mean everything is vaporware, and someone who doesn't care about the money earned by working in it but rather that it replaces money as we know it today.
- tshaddox 5y ago> Refuting crypto is an exercise in futility If your only goal is to persuade people who have no interest in utilizing reason, or to dazzle people who already agree with you with your rhetorical skills, then sure, there’s not much point. But if you actually want to utilize reason yourself and construct or refine a rational argument, that’s certainly not futile.
- someguydave 5y agoplenty of “crypto refuters” act in a cult-like fashion as well
- baby 5y agoI guess I'm part of a third group: not a bitcoin maximalist but understand the innovation.
- cinntaile 5y agoI wonder if you have thought about why you only see the subject in black and white? Is this something you do for other subjects as well? If so, getting to the bottom of what leads to this thought pattern would be very valuable to you I think. Then you could come up with strategies to avoid this.