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I have the feeling this thread will be interesting to read in 20 years. Not in the same we read Krugman's 1998 [paraphrase] "the internet is dumb" statement but instead from a post…

The blockchain = internet is a grand claim but so is the assumption of little utility. People forget how horribly inefficient and unethical current economic tools are. Crypto-plebs…

Beware of anything Jed McCaleb touches. The author of eDonkey, the horrid PHP code that was MTGox, ripple and now stellar.

Title is very inaccurate.

I couldn't agree more. I'll add, if you are interested in making money there are plenty of coin's, including BCash, to spend your time with. Go for it. But if you are interested in…

to be clear bitcoin.com was purchased and thereby founded by satoshi. According to Themos Satoshi gifted all his ownerships in domains to other people in a community. According to …

why is this on HN?

Due to the encoded rules and relationship of miners to them Bitcoin has to increase in value by %25 per year (a doubling every 4 years) or slowly die by miners exiting. This would …

More and more grateful my nutty "Sovereign Citizen" parents never got me a social security number

bullshit. we need to emphasise the maleness of CEO's in power structures as a whole and the homogenic group think this creates.