The problem (on HN) is that the hype-ignorance runs both directions. Tech-literates see the tech-illiterates getting scammed, and thereby extrapolate that the

The problem (on HN) is that the hype-ignorance runs both directions. Tech-literates see the tech-illiterates getting scammed, and thereby extrapolate that the technology is fundamentally a scam, which is absurd. Data structures, protocols, algorithms, exist at an abstraction layer below that of socio-economic-marketing scams.