Re:When Bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the community pray...
by sph on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:49AM
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One side feels more righteous because "Bitcoin wastes energy and if you care about climate, you should pray for crypto to crash tomorrow."
It's a valid concern taken to such extreme that it's used as a political slogan anyone can hide behind and forces laymen to pick a side, it's the tech equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and shouting "I can't hear you! Bitcoin causes climate change!" If you hate climate change, you MUST hate Bitcoin or you're an hypocrite.
The discourse has fallen off a cliff on the side of maximalists and cryptohaters alike. It's just idiots shouting at each other and probably one of the biggest intellectual voids on HN today: there is no intelligent discussion about crypto that can be made in here since 2018 or so when they all decided to pick a side and turn their brains off.
Whatever happened to "intellectual curiosity" and hacker spirit? Sign of the times I guess.
It's a valid concern taken to such extreme that it's used as a political slogan anyone can hide behind and forces laymen to pick a side, it's the tech equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and shouting "I can't hear you! Bitcoin causes climate change!" If you hate climate change, you MUST hate Bitcoin or you're an hypocrite.
The discourse has fallen off a cliff on the side of maximalists and cryptohaters alike. It's just idiots shouting at each other and probably one of the biggest intellectual voids on HN today: there is no intelligent discussion about crypto that can be made in here since 2018 or so when they all decided to pick a side and turn their brains off.
Whatever happened to "intellectual curiosity" and hacker spirit? Sign of the times I guess.