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I don't know a single knowledgable IT person who is into cryptocurrencies (and all of them were curious in the beginning). This might also be why people like t

by atoav 4y ago

I don't know a single knowledgable IT person who is into cryptocurrencies (and all of them were curious in the beginning). This might also be why people like them and me just ignore most discussion about cryptocurrencies. It is not my job to convince idiots that what they are doing is stupid and they lie to themselves because they already invested a lot of time and money into this. But that also means in any cryptocurrency-discussion you will always hear those invested people and rarely people like you and me. This distorts the picture of course.

drpixie 4y ago
Similar, I know lots of people who were interested & curious, but none who are now involved. That's a small sample, but it's what I see.
pa7x1 4y ago
Not knowledgeable: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M93Auk4AAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M93Auk4AAAAJ&hl=en https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/ https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Steven-Goldfeder/2642595 https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Steven-Goldfeder/2642... 3 different founders of startups working in crypto.
- atoav 4y ago
  I still don't know them personally so I cannot judge whether they involve themselves in crypto because they are... ethically flexible.. and in it for the money or whether they truly have a rationale why this a useful way forward for society. As far as the latter goes, I have yet to hear a vision of a crypto-currency-future that not the wet dream of a neo-liberal born-into-riches person or the wet dream of someone doing scams and selling illegal stuff habitually. I mean they are trying to replace currency systems that have been around since thousands of years, so you better have more going on than "it is on computers" and "I know/am the person who is in control of the system" or "I know/am the person who invested a ton into this so it must work".

by atoav 4y ago

drpixie 4y ago

Similar, I know lots of people who were interested & curious, but none who are now involved. That's a small sample, but it's what I see.

pa7x1 4y ago

Not knowledgeable: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M93Auk4AAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M93Auk4AAAAJ&hl=en https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/ https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Steven-Goldfeder/2642595 https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Steven-Goldfeder/2642... 3 different founders of startups working in crypto.

atoav 4y ago
I still don't know them personally so I cannot judge whether they involve themselves in crypto because they are... ethically flexible.. and in it for the money or whether they truly have a rationale why this a useful way forward for society. As far as the latter goes, I have yet to hear a vision of a crypto-currency-future that not the wet dream of a neo-liberal born-into-riches person or the wet dream of someone doing scams and selling illegal stuff habitually. I mean they are trying to replace currency systems that have been around since thousands of years, so you better have more going on than "it is on computers" and "I know/am the person who is in control of the system" or "I know/am the person who invested a ton into this so it must work".