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Crypto-coin stuff seems to cause one-dimensional good-vs-bad discussions. Nothing to learn from.

• mdanger007 4y ago
  What's the fine line of Do Qwon's story, ripping off investors to the tune of 100s of millions? Is he a modern Rodion Raskolnikov?
  • firebaze 4y ago
    Did that surprise you?
• rvz 4y ago
  The only thing to learn here is that on HN, most of them like predictable outrage on their own bias if it goes on top of HN. The majority of comments are dismissive and uninformative and then you have some of them accepting that regulations are coming whilst also disagreeing with absolutist statements. They are in the minority of comments here. If you post a crypto exit scam in the multi-millions, just watch the reactions go wild. Post anything about Stripe, Moneygram, Checkout.com, Shopify, Namecheap, Porkbun, etc and other companies using cryptocurrencies, then you will get zero reactions or it never reaches the top of HN. The absolutist arguments that both the critics and maximalists keep making is quite cheap really and I'm only taking their arguments with a grain of salt and looking at the crypto industry with close inspection but not with sweeping dismissals or being ignorant of the entire industry as a whole with hasty generalisations or confirmation bias. Otherwise, the whole thing would have been totally (and successfully) banned and collapsed shorter than expected. Co-existence is what is going to happen really.