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It's amazing how those three comments still reflect the main opinions about crypto

"This is an absurd waste of energy" is missing.

It's not a waste of energy according to the miners who shell out for that energy.

Cool, but I think the first time it received a whopping nothing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793

Says something about society's myopia. I need to research and synthetize history of projects like these. Invisible at first, diagonal .. and then booming. Mostly about people's inspiration and thinking process prior said project.

Booming and busting, don't forget.

(My job is advocating a cryptocurrency that enables privacy through technology, but I think that cryptocurrencies should be a quite small percentage — if any — of most people's investment portfolios.)

"there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency"