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perspective of a not terribly interested party: * two years ago: "bitcoin! bitcoin! bitcoin!" - tech community: "bitcoin is a pyramid scheme and also bad for
by zzzeek 5y ago
perspective of a not terribly interested party:
* two years ago: "bitcoin! bitcoin! bitcoin!" - tech community: "bitcoin is a pyramid scheme and also bad for the environment."
* a year ago: "crypto! crypto! not bitcoin, there's others and also fintech loves blockchain!" - tech community: "nope, still a pyramid scheme, financial community goes whereever there's hype and $$$, they couldnt care less about 'tech'"
* 6 months ago: "nfts! nfts! look there's an actual thing associated with it!" - tech communuty: "but you don't actually own anything. obvious speculation scam"
* 2 months ago: "web3! web3! it's vague! except it's all about those things above we just make it less obvious and more buzzwordy!" - tech community: please leave
- capableweb 5y agoWant to share where I can read the unified opinion from the "tech community"? I'd consider myself as part of the tech community, but never said anything of those things, are you sure you can speak for everyone in the community?
- zzzeek 5y ago> Want to share where I can read the unified opinion from the "tech community"? a good place to start would be the majority of replies on this thread
- capableweb 5y agoHN is such a small slice of the "tech community", if we see the definition the same way (people who work in "tech"). I don't think you should take anything you read here as "majority of people in tech thinks like this", because the size is so small.
- brandonmenc 5y agoMy experience is that the ratio of crypto skeptics here on hn more or less mirrors that of any non-crypto focused tech community (ex: coworkers, SIGs, etc)
- ninkendo 5y agoWhat other online tech communities are there out there that I can check out? If you say this is such a tiny one, I’d love to see the “bigger than HN” community you must be referring to.
- capableweb 5y agoReddit, Twitter, other social media. But then there are (believe it or not) communities outside of the internet as well. Actual people working actual jobs in real life.
- ninkendo 5y agoTwitter is an “online tech community”? I think we have different definitions of the term. To elaborate, I think there’s too much non-tech people on social media for you to say that it’s a better representation of the “tech community” than HN. HN has at least some self-selection towards people who are interested in tech, whereas Twitter/FB/etc has way too much noise from non-tech uninformed crypto fetishists to say it’s representative of the “tech community”. (That is not to say that non-tech people’s opinions don’t matter, or that twitter/FB/etc are not good places in general, but the subject of this thread of discussion is “what the tech community thinks of crypto/web3” and I don’t think “everyone on twitter” is great to use as a counter-example.)
- schleck8 5y agoHere on HN. The comment count vs upvotes for posts like this speaks for itsself
- everfree 5y agoIt feels like something or other cryptocurrency related floats on the front page of Hacker News every other day, and discussion about it is welcomed. I would call that the opposite of "please leave".
- ShamelessC 5y agoedit: whoops - misread. [original] That simply isn't true. There has been consistent and widespread criticism of crypto enthusiasm on the majority of stories posted here recently.
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- everfree 5y agoWhat simply isn't true? I said discussion about it is welcomed here, and you're telling me that critical discussion is "consistent and widespread". It sounds like we agree.
- ShamelessC 5y agoah, indeed I misunderstood. cheers!