Consider me a lazy consumer, waiting for my niche(s) to be filled.
"Interesting problems" implies wanting to work on them or being curious about the solution.
You don't want to work these problems, whether they involve cryptocurrencies or not. You want solutions as a consumer, which is an important voice to be heard, but different.
For example, a quiet running refrigerator would be useful to me but is not an interesting problem to me.
A title better aligned with the content would be "Problems I want solved as a consumer that crytocurrencies do not solve" or "As a consumer, cryptocurrencies haven't solved my problems".
Once again, HN doesn't disappoint. As a community, we continue to promote solutions to technology problems, but as soon as it involves finances, we draw the line in the sand and don't dare cross it.
Well if the author of the post really hated cryptocurrencies and being a 'security researcher' as well, just find the bugs inside the cryptocurrency industry (exchanges, smart contracts, etc) and then highlight these bugs in your post as to why cryptocurrencies still have a long way to go. Maybe then the author might be taken a bit more seriously when it comes to that.
After all, one even said they are so called 'self-paying bug bounties' [0] A great way to show the world that these systems are still in their infancy.
> as soon as it involves finances, we draw the line in the sand and don't dare cross it.
Just don't ask about stocks, cryptocurrencies or investing on HN. This is why. [1] [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29451300