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Interesting that articles like this are coming from everywhere at the moment, now that BTC$ is tanking. But when Bitcoin price was still going up, they were not

Interesting that articles like this are coming from everywhere at the moment, now that BTC$ is tanking. But when Bitcoin price was still going up, they were not all that popular, also not on HN. It seems the moral argument for Bitcoin is positively correlated with its price.

rubatuga 4y ago
More like now is the best time to convince others that shitcoins are a thing.
piva00 4y ago
They were pretty popular on HN, always been. I know because I participated in a lot of discussions the past years here about all the stupidity going around the cryptocurrency space. Don't let your biases write your comments.
- sshine 4y ago
  Cryptocurrency criticism was prevalent for years on HN, yes. But the popularity of the criticism is increasing with its recent price drop.
  - rsynnott 4y ago
    That seems... expected? Magical internet money is more on peoples' minds than usual at the moment, so it's natural that stuff about it would get more engagement.
  - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
    > the popularity of the criticism is increasing with its recent price drop This is how theories are proposed, vetted and adopted [1]. Bitcoin was proposed as a solution to a set of problems. Over time, the null hypothesis was refined. We're now seeing, with the tide going out, strong evidence to support it. So people are switching sides, or taking a side for the first time. In Kuhn's words, a paradigm shift was experimented with and appears to be in the process of being rejected. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
probablypower 4y ago
> It seems the moral argument for Bitcoin is positively correlated with its price. this is specious reasoning. The moral arguments for/against bitcoin have always been there. Judging the validity of arguments based on how often they appear in media is how you get burned/misled.

rubatuga 4y ago

More like now is the best time to convince others that shitcoins are a thing.

piva00 4y ago

They were pretty popular on HN, always been. I know because I participated in a lot of discussions the past years here about all the stupidity going around the cryptocurrency space. Don't let your biases write your comments.

sshine 4y ago
Cryptocurrency criticism was prevalent for years on HN, yes. But the popularity of the criticism is increasing with its recent price drop.
- rsynnott 4y ago
  That seems... expected? Magical internet money is more on peoples' minds than usual at the moment, so it's natural that stuff about it would get more engagement.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > the popularity of the criticism is increasing with its recent price drop This is how theories are proposed, vetted and adopted [1]. Bitcoin was proposed as a solution to a set of problems. Over time, the null hypothesis was refined. We're now seeing, with the tide going out, strong evidence to support it. So people are switching sides, or taking a side for the first time. In Kuhn's words, a paradigm shift was experimented with and appears to be in the process of being rejected. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

probablypower 4y ago

> It seems the moral argument for Bitcoin is positively correlated with its price. this is specious reasoning. The moral arguments for/against bitcoin have always been there. Judging the validity of arguments based on how often they appear in media is how you get burned/misled.