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Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
Which is a bad canary in the coal mine, for something backed up by hype. Unless we eventually see TV commercials pumping up gold I mean bitcoin.
This article is delusional if it thinks the swings have anything to do with the bitcoin civil war. Bitcoin has always been volatile, and will continue to be volatile. It's a gambler's currency. People always try to assign a reason to things. We don't like accepting that there just aren't any reasons. But as someone who has seen bitcoin go up and down and back again over years, there really isn't a reason for it besid…
The swings absolutely were caused by anxiety/relief around this event.
Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
Not really, IMO mostly people just got tired of talking about them. Which is a bad canary in the coal mine, for something backed up by hype. Unless we eventually see TV commercials pumping up gold I mean bitcoin.
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I think it's implying the argumentative state when currencies are brought up. There's a lot of emotions wrapped around all the nonsense of forks, the random thefts, and general new but somewhat difficult to understand technology. For most people it doesn't serve a purpose outside of what they're reading (I own a few bitcoin that I mined back in 09, but I'm never really compelled to use them for anything due to headac…
I've never quite understood the argument that bitcoin are difficult to spend. I have bought things with them and it's so much easier than credit cards! You open a wallet app, point your phone at your computer and tap yes, done. Credit cards you have to (optionally) make sure the site won't steal your number, go get your physical wallet, fill out a rather long form (that sometimes throws an error and makes you fill it…
> Credit cards you have to (optionally) make sure the site won't steal your number,
Nope. If it's stolen, you get issued a new card and all the old transactions are refunded.
> go get your physical wallet, fill out a rather long form
Browser integration makes it easy to fill out these forms. I don't use it, but I've seen people who do.
> and then occasionally call the issuer because they decided someone might have stolen your card and won't let the transaction go through because it's big.
In my experience card companies let the transaction go through even if it's big. Then they call you. Mine sends me a text saying "Was this you? Type 1 for yes" and that's the end of it. I like that. It's a good thing.
Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
I can only imagine it's a mixture of jealousy and sour grapes from missing out on crypto's rise, but it feels strange that a forum dedicated to tech is so angry and dismissive towards a really interesting new technology.
Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
/sigh
This article is delusional if it thinks the swings have anything to do with the bitcoin civil war. Bitcoin has always been volatile, and will continue to be volatile. It's a gambler's currency. People always try to assign a reason to things. We don't like accepting that there just aren't any reasons. But as someone who has seen bitcoin go up and down and back again over years, there really isn't a reason for it besid…
This was written 2 days ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-manipulate-bitcoin-market...
Has anyone noticed a paradigm shift in the way Bitcoin and Ethereum are treated on HN?
Nope, it still seems as hostile as ever. Every top voted comment on a thread concerning crypto will be people cheering its inevitable demise and mocking its naive supporters. I can only imagine it's a mixture of jealousy and sour grapes from missing out on crypto's rise, but it feels strange that a forum dedicated to tech is so angry and dismissive towards a really interesting new technology.
That being said, I'm one of the people who have always mocked bitcoin. There are so many obvious problems with it, and some of the people in the cult built around it lack a hilarious amount of self-awareness.
Congrats to those who speculated successfully regardless. I'm not salty about people who jumped on $AMD over a year ago, or any tulips throughout history.