Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
by DonHopkins on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:56AM
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For somebody with such an unhealthy obsession with consensus based trust, you're certainly disturbed by the consensus on Hacker News that cryptocurrencies are a scam, and the widespread and uniform distrust of people who shill them.
What's so bad about consensus and trust, again?
Is the only kind of consensus you trust the kind of consensus that's arrived at by burning tons of coal?
To be fair, HN discussions are prone to sybil attacks, of which cryptocurrencies are not.
Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
by GlassKingdom on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:37AM
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The number of people with genuine belief in web3 is SWAMPED by people hoping to make a quick buck from the “greater fool”’
Unfortunately it’s a “curate’s egg” situation, and anyone genuinely promoting web3 is indistinguishable from the grifters.
It's interesting to see on a site that calls itself 'Hacker News' where the whole point is being curious about upcoming startup projects or technologies.
Theranos turned out to be a scam with many investors losing their money, does that mean all startups are scams? No. So given that many companies like Stripe, MoneyGram, Namecheap, etc have re-entered into cryptocurrencies, perhaps they are also aware that some of the ones they have chosen to use have a use case?