Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?

#1

Post by GGfpc » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 1:38 PM UTC

Hackernews is what I would consider a website with solid discussion about technology. However it's extremely skeptical when it comes to cryptocurrency.

I'd like know if there is a similar technically minded community for crypto.

I sometimes read /r/CryptoCurrency but its mostly shilling and asking about prices, so it doesn't really interest me.

Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?

#2

Post by sshine » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

HN is the HN of cryptocurrency. ;-)

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#3

Post by navd » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

Pretty much Twitter at this point for me. There's too much pessimism on HN when it comes to crypto. I appreciate criticism but Twitter has all the deep thinkers

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#4

Post by knuthsat » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

sshine wrote: post #2

HN is the HN of cryptocurrency. ;-)

Yep, nothing gets me salivating as much as the idea of a digital Euro issued by the EU, implemented to be fully private (can't see sender/receiver/transaction count/transaction amounts), bulletproofs [0], combined with view keys that are single-use only when the law needs to intervene. Zero-knowledge proofs used to determine if I paid my taxes without knowing how much I earn and similar exotic behavior.

Was quite surprised something like this is possible and I love seeing new crypto tech on HN.

0: https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs/

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#5

Post by namdnay » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

HN is extremely skeptical about everything, because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer

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#6

Post by wayoutthere » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

The profit incentive in crypto created a real incentive to creating and exploiting asymmetric / proprietary information that mirrors existing finance markets. The sad truth is that this causes basically every crypto community to devolve into shilling and pricing discussions. It’s the same thing you see with stocks; anyone willing to give you insight into the market is likely playing the other side.

Even technical discussions devolve into arguments about how things will be priced; but this is all because everyone is trying to make their altcoin a meme and become rich. When success equals a huge payday and the risk to shilling is so low, it infiltrates all discussion around a topic.

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#7

Post by jstummbillig » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

namdnay wrote: post #5

HN is extremely skeptical about everything , because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer

Is it though? Being a skeptic is fairly easy and not that valuable when it comes to doing stuff.

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#8

Post by dkdbejwi383 » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:26 PM UTC

jstummbillig wrote: post #7

namdnay wrote: post #5

HN is extremely skeptical about everything , because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer

Is it though? Being a skeptic is fairly easy and not that valuable when it comes to doing stuff.

That's the idea

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#9

Post by brontoski » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

The Daily Ape by Darren Lau (t.me/thedailyape) The Bankless podcast/newsletter

These are some solid news sources, if you don't have time to follow everyone on twitter

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#10

Post by bidirectional » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

navd wrote: post #3

Pretty much Twitter at this point for me. There's too much pessimism on HN when it comes to crypto. I appreciate criticism but Twitter has all the deep thinkers

Yes. Twitter is honestly much better for most topics, as long as you do a good job of curating who you follow.

Practially any deep topic on HN is 90% just people with no expertise making pronouncements or asking for it to be explained to them. It's still worth reading for the occasional insight from the minority, though.