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Remember porn on the web or spam on email?

HN's hate for crypto is hilarious.

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>Remember porn on the web or spam on email?

>HN's hate for crypto is hilarious.

Really? I don't recall members of "our own tribe" sitting down and cranking out 2 hours of VHS video takedowns of "the web" or "email".[0]

[0] The Problem with NFTs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

No, you had members of the dying tribe do that. Time will tell if this is the same thing or not.

No, the dying tribe never went to these extensive lengths and exhibited this level of disgust toward the web or email during its initial rise.

What was the dying tribe in your example? Like how would you define it.

This prompts an interesting question! Even though I'm a crypto fan I have a hard time thinking that this will cause some giant rift in tech. But it seems like it may already have!

If theoretically many anti-crypto people do turn out to be the dying tribe, what does that mean? What does that future world look like? What does the living tribe end up looking like?

It looks a lot like no more blockbuster, things more like Netflix, and a whole bunch of people selling their music on Spotify and bandcamp.

Basically, some people don't make it, some new ones do, and a lot of people adapt, some reluctantly or disgruntled and some realize they were wrong.

I might be the one realizing I'm wrong, but of course I doubt it.

I don't think HN hates crypto itself, at least speaking for myself, I hate the community that formed around it. It is impossible to even have honest conversations about the it because they are drowned out by all the dishonesty and noise about 1000x gains and it being the future of finance which will somehow replace the whole financial system.

Have you heard of this internet thing? it's full of SCAMS and people trying to get advantage of you (with penny stocks, nigerian prince, get-rich-quick websites, and all sort of crap).

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