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Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#12HN 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 sur…
> Yep, nothing gets me salivating as much as the idea
You should try sex one day.
Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#13If you can deal with the finance-speak and excessive hustlerism, Bowtied Bull on Substack has some interesting commentary. Their old blog (Wall Street Playboys) was equally as interesting as it was offputting.
Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#14HN 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.
On the other hand being overly optimistic about ideas that are clearly silly/inefficient/worse than every other option is how you waste millions of dollars on things like solar roadways or the Dodger stadium dugout loop.
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#15Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#16HN is extremely skeptical about everything , because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer
I agree. I see HN as a kind of "peer review" of submitted links and information.
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#17Pretty 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
I'm new to Twitter, always have been a Luddite when it comes to it but I'm curious to try, any advice on how to find quality accounts to follow?
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#18a) I hand my friend a $1 coin/note.
b) I socialise the transaction and have everyone try be the first to crack an algorithm that proves I've given my friend a cryptocoin worth $1
There's a community out there claiming one solves a bunch of problems the other had. You tell me...
Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#19They're all scams.
Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
#20Searching for a bubble that reinforces your existing views is probably not the best way to learn more about any given topic.