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0 pointsflaque4y ago0 comments

> I can appreciate the potential of the technology, but that doesn’t mean I embrace the community.

That seems fine, and is basically the opinion I hold.

The intellectually challenging thing about crypto is that it is very easy to go from “I don’t like these people” to “these people’s predictions are wrong”.

Hacker news seems so caught up in disliking a subset crypto people, that they assume that not only are they “bad people”, but they’re wrong.

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titanomachy4y ago

I agree. I think in general if you’re saying anything interesting there’s at least some risk that you’re wrong—if you only say things that everyone already knows are true, why bother talking?

Some crypto people may be wrong a bit more than baseline because their judgement is more clouded by the dollar signs in their eyes, compared to people talking about e.g. open-source distributed databases.

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