There’s a reason HN largely misses the innovation behind crypto, and it’s fairly simple. Bitcoin is not a technical innovation; Bitcoin’s value does not come fr

There’s a reason HN largely misses the innovation behind crypto, and it’s fairly simple. Bitcoin is not a technical innovation; Bitcoin’s value does not come from being an interesting data structure. Bitcoins value and genius is almost entirely economic in nature and hand waiving the (very simple) cryptography and computer science involved to analyze the economics is where the sophistication and avenue for critiques would come in. Technical knowledge gives you a menial job of auditing when it comes to Bitcoin. If you don’t have the economic sophistication and approach when discussing Bitcoin it only proves you are ignorant to what’s relevant.