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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by muzani on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:21PM (#16462327)
2018: Bitcoin goes full bubble. You'll have more mainstream experts implying it will hit $1M. The more technical people will pull out entirely or try out altcoins. Bitcoin has a limited window to step up their game. Possibly see ETH take over or even Bitcoin Cash.

It would either be year of the altcoin or crypto crash.

Longer term: Increased H1B restrictions and high Silicon Valley land prices would make investors look for alternative cities for early stage investments. It's unlikely this city will be in the US.

Also I foresee "startup" not being a buzzword anymore, replaced by "side project".

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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by nakedgrape on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:33PM (#16463145)
Startup has been so overused at this point that has totally lost all its appeal. Anybody with a T-shirt with a logo has a startup. I once heard my landlord call her renting two of her spare rooms of her house a startup.

The other buzzwords I'd add in is "engineer" and "lab", though I don't see them going away anytime soon. Everybody's a bloody engineer, and every company is a lab. Grotesque.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by scalesolved on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:28AM (#16464350)
Bitcoin Cash is extremely unlikely to overtake Bitcoin, way less volume and it's losing the appeal of faster and cheaper transactions. Bitcoin has a huge chunk of the current crypto currency market and a massive lead in mind share.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by muzani on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:40PM (#16469975)
You're probably right. I just heard that Stripe is using BCH and not BTC.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by firelemissiles on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:49AM (#16465611)
No love for LTC?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018? by muzani on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:41PM (#16469979)
It's been around for a long time and nobody is using it as a currency yet. Not a lot of confidence of anyone using it as one in the future.
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