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Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by graeme on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:31PM (#26162705)
Bitcoin was actually enormously popular on hacker news in the early years. Its popularity has soured here over time but it started popular.

I think the opinion changed from favourable to skeptical as no use cases emerged.

Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by codehalo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:49AM (#26166849)
I've been on HN since bitcoins inception. There was NEVER an instance where this site had a favorable opinion of bitcoin. NEVER.