The first Bitcoin post on HN
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The first Bitcoin post on HN
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#2Hindsight is 20/20 [1].
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#3jdoliner's comment is a good reminder to forget the haters
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#4>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.
Hah!
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#5>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency. Hah!
People should be required to place a monetary bet whenever they make a bold claim in public. I think we would see less comments like this one.
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#6How many people had the slightest clue that books would be replaced by Kindles, CDs by iPODs, tablets selling as much as laptops. The comments show that people underestimated the impact bitcoin would make.
I still believe its just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Bitcoin.
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#7That four-year-old submission has just two comments: one expressing doubt, one expressing optimism.
Interestingly, despite growing worldwide adoption of Bitcoin, comments about it on HN continue to be more or less evenly split between doubters and optimists. And I wouldn't be surprised if comments to this submission are evenly split between those same two camps.
No amount of evidence or reasoning seems to persuade either camp to change its views!
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#8>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency. Hah!
There's faith among fans of the currency. Others are interested, but that's a long way from faith.
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#9It just shows that many people are quick to be negative and for some reason unwilling to consider alternative possibilities.
Remember that negative and critical viewpoints are normally perceived to be from the the more intelligent person. Unfortunately people who are more accepting of new and novel ideas can at first seem like the less intelligent of the group. (Probably because they are not quick to dismiss and put down a thing, and thus have less to say at first glance)
The only solution is to think for yourselves and research the positions presented.
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#10Hindsight is 20/20 [1]. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
A lot of people link there but it always looked to me like the response he got was overwhelmingly positive.