I think the general perspective of Bitcoin specifically around here meshes with the general stance on a lot of topics. Bitcoin is the 1.0 cryptocurrency. It was groundbreaking, but it has technological deficiencies that are/were being addressed by improvements in the general technology of cryptocurrencies. But the Bitcoin protocol itself has demonstrated to be impossible to modernize, as even the most trivial change like a block size increase is not taken up, so progress in this space is happening in the form of other cryptocurrencies. But there are a lot of people, including in the comments of HN, who have a big stake not in the technology or in cryptocurrencies in general but in Bitcoin specifically. They’re perfectly happy to see this area of technology stagnate and be held back by being forced to layer innovation over Bitcoin itself, as with the Lightning network, when much better solutions are available by moving on from Bitcoin.

So when I see someone advocating for Bitcoin specifically they come off as transparently self-serving and having no real interest in the technology. I see a lot of parallels to projects refusing to migrate off of Python 2, except in this case Bitcoin enthusiasts are compelled to actively evangelize the inferior technology instead of just sticking to it as the rest of the technology space moves along.