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Don’t have strong opinions on this, but not sure why the above got downvoted. Seems like an informed comment.

• dTal 5y ago
  Probably because it's painfully obvious that "Bitcoin is good for the environment" cannot possibly be true, and rather than expend energy unpicking the logical fallacy in the reasoning they'd rather downvote and move on.
  • emteycz 5y ago
    If it was painfully obvious, there wouldn't have been 10 years of debate and new projects wouldn't be coming up and wouldn't be successful.
    • bradlys 5y ago
      Murder is said to be bad yet murder keeps happening. Why could it ever be? Murder must be successful! Same logic.
      • emteycz 5y ago
        Yeah, and Hitler blah blah
• exdsq 5y ago
  HN has very strong views on crypto along the lines of it's all bad, so even fairly reasoned arguments (that may well be flawed) are downvoted into oblivion without a decent debate on the points. It's why I wish Crypto was just banned from HN - it is rarely a decent conversation here.
  • shanusmagnus 5y ago
    I like it for that reason -- the attitude of a bunch of technically-proficient hacker types is a good bellwether for what can be expected from society in general. If even the HN crowd is making the calibre of comment HN people usually make, then either we are still super early, or I'm super wrong. Time will tell I guess.
  • SantalBlush 5y ago
    The points have been debated ad nauseum on HN. There's really nothing more to say, hence the downvoting.