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Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by antr »

cs702 wrote: post #7

That 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 ei…

and one [dead] comment:

    ram1024 1655 days ago | link [dead] | fold
    i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the logistics of this...

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by smtddr »

joosters wrote: post #15
marvin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For all we know, the comment might be proven right next week/month/year. It's just right now that it's plainly wrong. How much is your monetary bet then?

Which brings us to an interesting question... how long does something have to go before we consider it a success even if it fails later? When something comes along to defeat Facebook, are we going to call Facebook a failure? Was Myspace a failure?[1] The fact that Bitcoin has ran this long, given some huge payouts and legit(albeit small) businesses accept it as payment, I'm almost ready to call bitcoin a success even if it fails 6 months from now.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/13/observerre... Myspace listed among the top 15 most influential sites.

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by VLM »

cs702 wrote: post #7

That 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 ei…

Religious in outlook; faith based. If we must have faith based psuedo-discussion its more fun to talk about evolution.

One interesting observation about the two comments, is both authors are still occasionally posting to HN, if you click thru. Its a long lived community.

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by [deleted] »

joosters wrote: post #15
marvin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For all we know, the comment might be proven right next week/month/year. It's just right now that it's plainly wrong. How much is your monetary bet then?

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Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by tomasien »

kamjam wrote: post #14
tomasien wrote: post #3

jdoliner's comment is a good reminder to forget the haters

Just because someone expresses skepticism that makes them a hater?

Skepticism is different from hating, absolutely, but the user didn't say they were skeptical - they said there was "no way". That's hating and you have to ignore it - skepticism and critical feedback you value, treasure, and seek out.

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by baby »

antr wrote: post #21
cs702 wrote: post #7

That 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 ei…

and one [dead] comment: ram1024 1655 days ago | link [dead] | fold i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the logistics of this...

it looks like a spam comment.

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by baby »

josephagoss wrote: post #9

It 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…

> many people

many people ? Are you generalizing over a single post ?

Re: The first Bitcoin post on HN

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Post by astrodust »

colinbartlett wrote: post #16
shocks wrote: post #2

Hindsight is 20/20 [1]. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Actually, I didn't like Dropbox then and I still don't like it. I wonder how many people who make bold public statements about things ever change their mind? Or if they just become entrenched in their opinions.

Why not? What's not to like?

As far as a hosted shared drive goes, Dropbox does a great job.

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