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You can also email most of the living technologists who are discussed regularly on this list. (At least the ones that aren't built out of an enormous PR team.)

They typically write back thoughtful responses.

Not giving any examples so they don't get 1000x low effort cryptocurrency pitches.

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Also not giving any examples because they often give low-effort negative responses (i.e. judge 10,000 startups through the lens of the one crypto they know about).

There aren't 10,000 living technologists who are discussed regularly on HN. There are perhaps a few dozen.

And I'll continue to not give any examples since I'm apparently already responding to an unprompted low-key pitch about a 1 in a 10,000 cryptocurrency opportunity.

Edit: oops, I misunderstood your low-key pitch. It's even more fascinating-- these technologists could be missing out on anywhere from 0 to 9,999 new crypto opportunities that innovate well beyond the single one you think everyone already knows about. Still, I think I'll pass.

They could judge through the lens of 500 crypto projects and the response would be the same. If I know a company sells via multi-level marketing, do I really need to wait around to hear what the product is? Really?

But they haven't. So they can't. That's the whole point of my comment. Being uninformed is still being uninformed.

Or maybe they’ve looked and decided the whole thing looks like a wildly speculative ponzi scheme. I’m not saying they HAVE, just that it’s a valid alternate explanation.

Like seriously nfts? Are we still not talking about the fact that they’re worse than beanie babies?

If people want to buy frivolous things so what? NFT’s can be seen as a status item similar to jewelry, cars, luxury clothing, etc.

Just think about how Stripe facilitates the purchase of things many people don’t need.

You don't need NFTs for this, we've had original-fursonas-do-not-steal for decades now.

Yeah, but we have them and people like them I guess? It’s competition.

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