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> Blockchains provide developers with extraordinarily powerful capabilities... Does anybody take statements like this seriously any more? I realise if you're s

> Blockchains provide developers with extraordinarily powerful capabilities... Does anybody take statements like this seriously any more? I realise if you're spruiking a crypto product you need to have at least drunk some of the koolaid, but are we still pretending that blockchains are actually useful constructs?

garethrowlands 4y ago
This is a bit like asking if anyone still takes Donald Trump seriously any more. Clearly, people do. Not the majority of people but still some people.
- Mistletoe 4y ago
  You are making a foolish ignorant statement that he himself has made about cryptocurrency. Very few technologies are all good or all bad as you desire to paint this one to be. The world exists in the gray area in between. It’s a tool that has the potential for good and evil, like cash, or nuclear power, or encryption, or the internet. Anyway, this is a digression and something I find infuriating about cryptocurrency stories on HN. Scroll down and people pop in and want to relitigate whether cryptocurrency should even exist like they are the first person that ever had this idea on HN. This is a story about how Stripe is implementing fiat to crypto on-ramps. It’s not a story about “should cryptocurrency exist?” or “is cryptocurrency a scam?” But that’s all this conversation will devolve into.