Just because people think and act like something has value doesn’t mean it does. The only things that have value are what the government, financial institutions, university professors, and HN commenters tell you
The comment is a duplicate of one of the only 2 comments on the original submission to HN 8 years ago.
The other comment hypothesized that bitcoin would end the recession.
What a microcosm of the future of Bitcoin that post was.
I cannot help but wonder why there are only 2 comments, is it because there were very few people on HN that time or people didn't take it very seriously
On the face of it, it's a hard thing to take seriously. A currency backed by nothing and based only on the energy expended to generate hashes? We've seen this before, in 1992, as hashcash. It didn't go anywhere then, there was no reason to think Bitcoin would be different.
Even on HN and even when not caring about karma, you really should be adding \s to save innocent people some time ;)