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Two and a half years ago I submitted "Warn HN: I've never seen the HN community so delusional about a major tech area" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35172767

Since then, many corporations, governments, Wall St, and central banks have begun adopting public blockchains, especially Ethereum, and stablecoins.

Hacker News has been almost 100% anti-crypto/public blockchains/stablecoins for years.

In light of recent progress, has your view changed?

Have you ever noticed how GitHub has no fast-forward pull request merges?

Did you know it's impossible to use GitHub PRs without rebasing your dev branch on main after every merged PR?

Please, if anybody knows somebody at GitHub that can help address this glaring limitation (15 years into GitHub's life), please help. My linear history people and I are desperate.

HN has been in my life since 2008.

I've seen many technology waves come and rise and go in the comment section of HN.

Almost invariably, the HN community is quite rational and curious.

Yet, the HN community's response to crypto is like nothing I've ever seen in my fifteen years of being here.

For most people in the HN community, crypto's perennial scams and dumps seem to have created an irrational level of disgust for the entire crypto industry. I believe this disgust has overwhelmed rationality and curiosity.

If you're an engineer, if you think of yourself as a curious person, but you haven't taken 30 minutes to read up on zero-knowledge proofs or stablecoin growth, or you haven't taken an hour to create a wallet and try products like Maker DAI, ENS, Compound, or Uniswap, then perhaps you aren't actually that curious, and/or you're letting your disgust of crypto scams get in the way of rational inquiry into crypto technology.