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Is it just me, or are both the pro-Bitcoin and anti-Bitcoin crowds broadly guilty of religion-esque levels of "critical thinking"? Way too many people in these
by rosser 13y ago
Is it just me, or are both the pro-Bitcoin and anti-Bitcoin crowds broadly guilty of religion-esque levels of "critical thinking"? Way too many people in these discussions are defending their existing viewpoints, not debating the issues.
- Helianthus 13y agoI'm firmly convinced Bitcoin is a lunacy of greed, and they're firmly convinced that they are rich. What's to debate? The discussion has reached a place of little common ground--a sign, perhaps, that maybe soon the universe will actually hand down a ruling and we can put down our HN accounts and go home. All of the debates on this issue have happened already. There's nothing left but vitriol and broken dreams. If I were to step aside and look at the current ground in context, I think we're seeing the effects of China's rebuff, and I think we're seeing Bitcoin fail on the global stage. There's only so much cheap faith in the world, and every time Bitcoin lets people down that rich resource is depleted. We've seen Bitcoin build up attention in the tech world (initial crash way back in the day), in the financial world (the most ludicrous crash, back in the spring), and now in China. What's left?