Two articles on the front page right now, both littered with negative comments. Google invested in Chainlink recently, is HN anti Chainlink/Blockchain? In other words, are there any blockchains that HN (generally speaking) has a positive opinion of?
Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#2To many people bitcoin (and similar crypto currency) more than adequately demonstrates why the protections provided by governments and etc for financal orgnizations, transactions exist / are needed.
As for blockchain I think we've seen a number of "solutions" to problems that are adequately solved by a database.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#3Personally I like Ripple.
I like permissioned blockchains.
Why is it that blockchains weren't invented sooner? I'll contend that you'd be laughed out of any distributed systems conference if you suggested any protocol where the workload capacity doesn't increase when you add nodes.
If you have ten traders who trade under a buttonwood tree, then having ten copies of the database makes the system bulletproof. If you have ten million traders, there is no additional gain, but there is a huge cost because you have ten million copies of the database.
Blockchains attract people who know nothing about money or technology the same way that pot startups attract stoners. It's just a bad scene.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#4Chainlink is a scam. Other than that, there's a ton of hype and BS in the cryptocurrency world, lots of Ponzi schemes and fraud.
That's where a lot of negative opinion comes from.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#5I remain intrigued by Stellar Lumens and the protocol behind it. Ripple gets the attention but my perception is that Stellar's tech is a superior fork.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#6Personally I like Ripple. I like permissioned blockchains. Why is it that blockchains weren't invented sooner? I'll contend that you'd be laughed out of any distributed systems conference if you suggested any protocol where the workload capacity doesn't increase when you add nodes. If you have ten traders who trade under a buttonwood tree, then having ten copies of the database makes the system bulletproof. If you ha…
There's no need for a blockchain if you only allow ten validators. You simply need a database.
Ripple is nothing more than a bank coin. It's not a cryptocurrency.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#7I obviously can't speak for all of HN, but I'm annoyed by the number of projects that include blockchain technology for no good reason.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#8> are there any blockchains that HN (generally speaking) has a positive opinion of?
Other than Bitcoin, three other coins that are sometimes talked about here are Ethereum, Monero, Zcash.
Ethereum was the first ICO. Many other tokens operate on its blockchain.
Monero is an open source project with lots of development and progress (third behind Bitcoin and Ethereum). Its transactions are private.
Zcash is open source but mainly developed by a for-profit company and uses interesting mathematics. Its transactions are public, with the option of being private.
Disclaimer: I'm only "invested" in one of the three coins I mentioned.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#9I can't speak for all of HN...
My $0.02: it wastes electricity to solve a non-problem.
Re: Ask HN: Why is HN so aggressively anti-Bitcoin?
#10In general people are critical of ideas that are new. HN has an especially critical user-base with technical skills, so attacks can be made on a larger surface area.