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Its not, but a lot of HN folks are blinded by their own stupidity whenever they see the word 'crypto'. The knee jerk reaction to that word shields them from a

by chaxor 4y ago

Its not, but a lot of HN folks are blinded by their own stupidity whenever they see the word 'crypto'. The knee jerk reaction to that word shields them from any engagement in thought - it's just simply "some association with crypto? - it's terrible!". This phenomenon early on was even targeted at simply cryptography based security (Although not super common on HN thankfully), since the word 'crypto' was associated with the software. Ironically, it was born as a response to the crypto-crazed people that had the same thoughtless reaction in reverse

monetus 4y ago
They were, for a time, taking donations on behalf of websites despite those websites not knowing that brave existed, or the donors not knowing that their donation was going to an unclaimed wallet. I can't remember what happened to the BAT - held for them if they ever did pick up brave I think, but eventually dumped back into the BAT pool. That, and substituting Amazon referral links, engendered distrust that is hard to overstate. Do you think is just a crypto=bad thing alone? That wasn't my impression.
- monetus 4y ago
  It actually wasn't Amazon links, but links to sites partnered with brave, like binance and Coinbase. They didn't seem to know about it ahead of time.
- soundnote 4y ago
  Not Amazon referral links. More like Firefox Suggest or the like: Write eg. "Binance" in the URL bar, and one of the results in the dropdown menu is a sponsored link to "binance.us" who are partnered with Brave. The feature had a bug that caused complete, valid URLs (ie. you wrote "binance.us") to be shown the sponsored link as a primary completion option. The issue persisted, as far as I know, one day. The response was to both fix the bug and make the feature be off by default.
  - monetus 4y ago
    Indeed, I couldn't edit my comment.
mort96 4y ago
This isn't about just using cryptocurrency, there are absolutely uses of cryptocurrency which I wouldn't describe as a scam. Here's what's making me call Brave a scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262620

by chaxor 4y ago

monetus 4y ago

They were, for a time, taking donations on behalf of websites despite those websites not knowing that brave existed, or the donors not knowing that their donation was going to an unclaimed wallet. I can't remember what happened to the BAT - held for them if they ever did pick up brave I think, but eventually dumped back into the BAT pool. That, and substituting Amazon referral links, engendered distrust that is hard to overstate. Do you think is just a crypto=bad thing alone? That wasn't my impression.

monetus 4y ago
It actually wasn't Amazon links, but links to sites partnered with brave, like binance and Coinbase. They didn't seem to know about it ahead of time.
soundnote 4y ago
Not Amazon referral links. More like Firefox Suggest or the like: Write eg. "Binance" in the URL bar, and one of the results in the dropdown menu is a sponsored link to "binance.us" who are partnered with Brave. The feature had a bug that caused complete, valid URLs (ie. you wrote "binance.us") to be shown the sponsored link as a primary completion option. The issue persisted, as far as I know, one day. The response was to both fix the bug and make the feature be off by default.
- monetus 4y ago
  Indeed, I couldn't edit my comment.

mort96 4y ago

This isn't about just using cryptocurrency, there are absolutely uses of cryptocurrency which I wouldn't describe as a scam. Here's what's making me call Brave a scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262620