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> given you took the time to make a throwaway account. This account is more than a year old. I make lots of HN accounts and typically stop using them after 50

> given you took the time to make a throwaway account. This account is more than a year old. I make lots of HN accounts and typically stop using them after 500karma. Like I said web3 is not popular on HN, you don’t even know the project (nor do others) but show disdain anyway because it is “crypto”. That’s not a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, but the a reflection on people that dislike a project not knowing what it is. FYI you’re on a platform that invests in startups, one of the most successful being a cryptocurrency exchange that went public and is responsible for the growth of cryptocurrency with the masses.

Kye 4y ago
>> "FYI you’re on a platform that invests in startups, one of the most successful being a cryptocurrency exchange that went public and is responsible for the growth of cryptocurrency with the masses." The difference is YC has a long string of non-crypto successes. So when they do invest in crypto, people are less suspicious of it than they would be some random person plugging their crypto project. Coinbase fills a need created by the chaos of crypto, the very chaos that causes the problems people criticize it for, and it does so reigning in the BS and creating a safe space for the few useful (or at least innocent) things like speculative investing and exchange. It's not like a DAO where you're counting on someone to write a good Ethereum contract that won't be rules lawyered by someone to take all the money. At this point the only thing that distinguishes it from a real bank is it handles crypto. Even the USD is FDIC-insured! Try again.
- throwawaycities 4y ago
  >Try again I don’t need to try again, I own the GeoCities trademark and IP. I’m really not sure what you are on about in terms of your hate for crypto & DAOs but love for Coinbase, whatever it is, your suspicion isn’t a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, it’s a reflection of yourself. Good luck with all that. They say you haven’t made it until you have haters…so thanks for spending your time and energy confirming that I’ve arrived.

Kye 4y ago

>> "FYI you’re on a platform that invests in startups, one of the most successful being a cryptocurrency exchange that went public and is responsible for the growth of cryptocurrency with the masses." The difference is YC has a long string of non-crypto successes. So when they do invest in crypto, people are less suspicious of it than they would be some random person plugging their crypto project. Coinbase fills a need created by the chaos of crypto, the very chaos that causes the problems people criticize it for, and it does so reigning in the BS and creating a safe space for the few useful (or at least innocent) things like speculative investing and exchange. It's not like a DAO where you're counting on someone to write a good Ethereum contract that won't be rules lawyered by someone to take all the money. At this point the only thing that distinguishes it from a real bank is it handles crypto. Even the USD is FDIC-insured! Try again.

throwawaycities 4y ago
>Try again I don’t need to try again, I own the GeoCities trademark and IP. I’m really not sure what you are on about in terms of your hate for crypto & DAOs but love for Coinbase, whatever it is, your suspicion isn’t a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, it’s a reflection of yourself. Good luck with all that. They say you haven’t made it until you have haters…so thanks for spending your time and energy confirming that I’ve arrived.