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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by scandox on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:56AM (#12127854)
As a layman, vis-a-vis blockchain and crypto in general, the language of this post reinforces my sense of a community of very smart, dumb people who I wouldn't trust with ten cents.

Whenever I find myself looking at a topic which technically goes over my head, I generally have to rely on the way the people involve express themselves. The language of the Blockchain community is awful from that point of view. It reminds me of sitting in meeting with too-clever lawyers, lost in a world of cunning minutiae, oblivious to the fecking meteor about to land on their heads.

Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by fraggle222 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:15AM (#12128371)
>...who I wouldn't trust with ten cents.

Interestingly the entire point of bitcoin, for example, is that you don't need to trust anyone at all.

Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by scandox on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:19AM (#12128395)
You have to trust the system
Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by anonbanker on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @09:20PM (#12133888)
I love how, 15 hours later, you were proven to be so very wrong, and even the bitcoin people are now taking Ethereum's lead.

Yes, it's epicaricacy. Yes, it's warranted.