Look at the comments in these threads. It’s always loaded with accusations of statist bootlickers and sheep brainwashed by American government tyranny and all t

Look at the comments in these threads. It’s always loaded with accusations of statist bootlickers and sheep brainwashed by American government tyranny and all the other rhetoric that could be equally well from Timothy McVeigh or 1960s Maoists or any other extremist group at either end of the political spectrum. Crypto is obviously about politics and always was. But is there even a technology angle left anymore? Bitcoin is frozen in amber and will never do anything more than it does now. Ethereum after the PoS transition is essentially a very slow distributed database owned by a special interest group. Other blockchains are variations of the same theme. Is it worth talking about crypto on HN at all? A total ban on crypto topics might be worth contemplating. Other purely political topics are similarly banned.