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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:07PM (#50435586)
Interestingly, HN by and large was extremely skeptical of crypto once it went from "cool technical project showing how you can implement a digital currency using shared consensus" to a bunch of speculation schemes. I recall numerous comments stating how "HN is biased against crypto" whenever someone pointed out all the problems with the tech.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ubercore on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:16AM (#50437863)
Fair point, but at the same time, it didn't stop the flood of posts and stories.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by Shocka1 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:56AM (#50440425)
One of my personal favorites was when Brian Armstrong got on here pitching his idea that eventually turned into Coinbase and everyone shit on him. Being a bit of a skeptic to crypto myself at the time, I was lukewarm on the idea, but man I wish I had joined him. For me personally it was a really good learning experience to stay open to technology no matter what my personal biases are.

That being said, when the AI stuff started making an appearance, I fully embraced it. This went against my gut feeling being a mid-level curmudgeon software engineer who had cut my teeth on code more nights than I can count until 4am.

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