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I agree. But, my last 30 years of laissez faire has resulted in forums like HN becoming toxic with smug "Crypto is a solution in search of a problem" and "told

• oblio 4y ago
  > So, I'll leave it. If only the "Eternal September" crowd is allowed to be comfortable here (because we all just "let them have their opinion", as usual), we know what happens. Smug-o, not all of us here were born yesterday. This is actually the wrong audience as the concentration of people who have been around the block a while is higher than for the average internet community.
• dmitriid 4y ago
  > yelling low-research insults without anyone pushing back on them... You'd think that in the past 14 years anyone would come up with a well-researched eloquent push back to the multitude of actually well researched eloquent questions that have been frequently asked of crypto enthusiasts. However, all we get back is utter drivel, cultlike devotion, and "just join the discords". The time of of eloquent questions has long passed. There is now a 0.999999999999999999999999 probabilty of anything crypto-related to be a scam, a solution in search of a problem, or a solution that ignores or is oblivious of the real world. It's on crypto enthuiasts to prove that their latest scam du-jour isn't a scam, and is an actual solution.