Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead

Re:Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead by rabbyte on Saturday August 29, 2015 @02:40PM (#10140940)

Just want to counter some of the negativity here to say I enjoyed the article and agree with many of the points. Bitcoin is a difficult subject for a lot of hackers to get right because when you're deeply embedded in the tech stack it can be difficult to remember humans are part of the software. Our emotions are part of the network.

The purest metric for Bitcoins decline can be found in the hundreds of spiteful, insulting, censoring, excluding conversations that are replacing the hope and optimistic tinkering that started it all.

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Re:Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead by brighton36 on Saturday August 29, 2015 @05:21PM (#10141388)

Wait, you believe bitcoin is declining in popularity because... "meanies"?

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Re:Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead by rabbyte on Sunday August 30, 2015 @12:44PM (#10143768)

Toxic work environments scare away smart people. Cynicism trumps innovation. Noise obscures signal. So, yes, meanies have a measurable impact on the health of a community. If every post on HN was toxic vitriol, would you be here? This isn't a thesis. I'm not suggesting this is Bitcoins only problem but that it's a very serious problem hackers tend to overlook.

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