122 sats \ 1 reply \ @Modus 22 Jun 2022
Current top comment on HN:
danamit 6 hours ago | next [–]
I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.
Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.
Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.
Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @rheedi0 22 Jun 2022
This is the best summation I've ever seen
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18 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jorj_X_McKie 22 Jun 2022
Fiat is a hideous monstrosity that forever spawns war, pollution, inequality, malinvestment, and corruption from top to bottom. Pick your team wisely.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taranis 22 Jun 2022
didn't read, never selling
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @sp 22 Jun 2022 freebie
The right answer is: "cry harder"
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @spookydub 22 Jun 2022
Actually surprised by the amount of counter-points on there, Hacker News people have been salty since the beginning.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @moel OP 22 Jun 2022
The reason I posted this here is that I hope that all of us will log into HN and leave a positive comment about bitcoin. A lot of the yuppie elite's don't understand BTC yet.... maybe we can educate them?
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