Ask HN: Why do negative crypto articles dominate on HN?

the community is extremely well paid in USD. there is every incentive to keep it valuable

in any case i doubt the cryptocoin world cares what hn thinks

I wonder this all the time. I admit I've come to some pretty negative conclusions about "tech" and "tech workers" as a result. There are so many problems with access to traditional financial systems that are completely ignored by those who the system was built for...that if I were to try and list them all...everyone would just shrug and say "oh, well, that's just the way it is" which basically means "since I personally don't suffer from those issues, I don't give a damn that you do and it's easier for me to just blow you off than to waste my precious time fixing something that causes you pain and suffering." Which, of course, is exactly the problem. There is no incentive for those who suffer no damage to assist those who do.

The scariest people are those who constantly try and smash crypto for things that haven't been built yet. To me, it's no different than saying "Well the Wright Brothers haven't yet built/flown/proven that flight is possible so I'll just consider them frauds and idiots. Forever." Or Edison keeps insisting that this thing he's working on called a "light stick" will be better than that nasty oil that Rockefeller is pitching but since he can't make it work yet, it'll never exist. And he is a fraud too. Or Berners-Lee keeps talking about hooking all these systems together and Andreesen keeps talking about making easier to interact with it....you get my point.

VC Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Capital just wrote a blog post about the scarcity of engineers in the Web3 space: https://tomtunguz.com/programming-languages-web3/. I've included the link so you can read it for yourself. But to me the issue seems related to engineers not wanting to learn new languages or upset their heavily laden, golden apple-filled carts. If everything is going lovely right now and the company pays me top dollar (and does my laundry, provides chef cooked meals, bicycles, gyms etc etc) to basically sit and type all day, why would I want to learn a new language and possibly not hit the Unicorn in the side with my poisoned darts??? The new web will wait or if I talk it down enough it might just disappear all together.

But we-those of of who can't get mortgages because we chose a different neighborhood than the banks would like or who are a different color/gender/whatever than the bank (ie: the system) would like have seen the new horizon and have seen what's possible: a window to a different experience. One where we get to set the terms and offer them to a marketplace. Which, by the way, also hasn't been built yet and the marketplace gets to say "yea" or "nea" and where things can be negotiated to the benefit of both.*

So I'd say the rabbit isn't going back into hat-Thank Goodness. But I also think that all the best things that haven't been built yet won't be built by members of this community.

Before the fact? Sure - but then the 51% issue doesn't happen, and you get to precrime