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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?
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It was a figure of speech. I still click on the links and scan the comments. The recent links about Ethereum and the large hack were prime examples. There is an extreme undercurrent of skepticism that only gets somewhat masked by HN’s culture of writing critical comments in a roundabout intellectual way. There are also a huge number of low effort hostile ones that seem like Reddit overflow. I should add that this is…
I'm not sure what you mean about the Etherium news, without the specific post it's hard to discuss it. Either way, I find crypto to be difficult to discuss online, in general. Mostly because there seems to be fanatics on both sides. You seem to notice more the ones on the "anti" side, I see plenty on the "pro" side. Not to mention the wrinkle where many people who were early adopters believed in it as an actual curre…
Look at the comments on the topic of hack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151538) and you'll find comments like:
- this was not a hack
- nobody stole anything, it's code LOL
- it's just shitcoins
- nothing is backed with real money
- good riddance, it's all a scam
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Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
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This is something I struggle with personally, because over the years I've trained my brain to look for weaknesses and reasons to say "no". It drives my wife nuts, because she sees it as being pessimistic about everything. To some extent it is, because I can very easily rattle off lists of "why that won't work" or "what's wrong with that", but it's a challenge for me to come up with lists of "why that would work". So…
> I can very easily rattle off lists of "why that won't work" or "what's wrong with that", but it's a challenge for me to come up with lists of "why that would work" A framework I have found to temper this instinct involves shifting from predicting whether something will or won’t work to finding the smallest, most-plausible set of assumptions which need to be true (or false) for the idea to work. You’re still identif…
Well said. I had much the same problem, and all it took to appear more positive, was to distill the message down to "This is how it will work", rather than "This won't work no way, no how".
(I cringe inside, but my paycheck thanks me)
Re: Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
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