Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble
by chrisco255 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:50PM
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I have to agree with your overall sentiment. After the Bitcoin boom in 2013 (and its subsequent bust in early 2014), I kind of stopped paying attention to the crypto space for a while. Little did I know that Buterin & Co. were busy building and launching Ethereum, which has profound implications of its own, some entirely orthogonal to Bitcoin's implications. We are definitely in Geocities days.
I sold cell phones to senior citizens in the early 00's, and that was a HARD SELL. Most of the ones that did buy, bought the minimal $20 / month, 60 minutes + nights & weekends plan because they thought "they would only use cell phones for emergencies". Don't even get me started on mobile web WEP browsers. It was unusable crap 15 years ago. And I would have to convince people that surely they would be checking their stocks, the news, etc. on their cell phones. The scoffs I got were unbelievable today.
Now, 15 years later, everyone and their grandmother has an iPhone / Android.
Where are all the hackers and dreamers on HN? I thought that's what this site was for. Irrational optimism is the fuel that feeds technological revolutions. So much negativity with crypto.
I sold cell phones to senior citizens in the early 00's, and that was a HARD SELL. Most of the ones that did buy, bought the minimal $20 / month, 60 minutes + nights & weekends plan because they thought "they would only use cell phones for emergencies". Don't even get me started on mobile web WEP browsers. It was unusable crap 15 years ago. And I would have to convince people that surely they would be checking their stocks, the news, etc. on their cell phones. The scoffs I got were unbelievable today.
Now, 15 years later, everyone and their grandmother has an iPhone / Android.
Where are all the hackers and dreamers on HN? I thought that's what this site was for. Irrational optimism is the fuel that feeds technological revolutions. So much negativity with crypto.