There's a lot of snake oil speculative no knowledge spam from people that easily give off a bullshit vibe. So I get that a lot on HN that haven't closely looked at it would be turned off by that and just dismiss it entirely out of hand.
There's some real stuff going on here too and it's worth a deeper look - I think the knee-jerk dismissal is a mistake. At this point over ten years in, it's worth at least taking a deeper look at even if (I'd argue especially if) you're a skeptic.
I also suspect there's some pseudo-intellectual skepticism cynicism as signaling going on like there always is.
There's a lot of snake oil speculative no knowledge spam from people that easily give off a bullshit vibe. So I get that a lot on HN that haven't closely looked at it would be turned off by that and just dismiss it entirely out of hand.
There's some real stuff going on here too and it's worth a deeper look - I think the knee-jerk dismissal is a mistake. At this point over ten years in, it's worth at least taking a deeper look at even if (I'd argue especially if) you're a skeptic.
I also suspect there's some pseudo-intellectual skepticism cynicism as signaling going on like there always is.
Specifically on BTC: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti...