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77 pointsabhutra47 comments

Look, I understand this might become like the "hacker" debate, but can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? We're coming to the point where people refer to these currencies as "cryptos".

The cryptography of digital currencies is a very small portion of the entire field, and the term is being gradually co-opted to refer to that specific portion.

The reason I bring this up is because I find the choice in domain name unfortunate. You could have used something like blockchain.study. The more we have this term co-opted the more often we'll search crypto and have the engine spit out a bunch of cryptocurrency related results when we're not necessarily looking for those.

> can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"?

I'm afraid that train has left the station. Can anyone think of a situation where such a language reversal has occurred?

Not off the top of my head, but I think it qualifies as a synecdoche:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

Other way around - synecdoche usually refers to a whole through a part (calling an entire ship by just saying stern, for example) but a part through a whole is usually called metonymy. Synecdoche is a subset of metonymy.

Edit: the wikipedia article does mention that it can be a part through a whole. But this is at odds with my Classical background.

The only one I can think of is "gay", but it evolved from an euphemism and not a compound word.

Anyway, this is a worrying trend. People are also starting to use "Cyber" instead of "Cyber security", so.

I concur. I have the keywords "cryptography" in my resume along with "NSA Suite-B Algorithms".

The amount of blockchain and cryptocoin startups that contact me are absolutely insane. They immediately assume that because I have the word crypto somewhere in there that I am working exclusively at cryptocoin startups.

Even bigger on my list of pet peeves regarding Bitcoin naming is using the term "bit" to refer to a fraction of a Bitcoin:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units

Agreed, what if we come up with a short word for it and spread it around, use it amoung ourselves and it will automatically spread around.

Something like CryptoC.

Part of the appeal of Hacker News is that it doesn't require a "first name" and a "last name" and an email address during registration.

True. Would consider your point.

why did you make this instead of a subreddit?

I actually thought of it. But I believe that although reddit can be a great platform but it comes with certain limitations.

With so many things going on in blockchain and cryptocurrecnices at so many fronts, a subreddit would give preference to only popular things. That is why I have added tags (Needs more improvement though), so that a person can look at his interest specifically.

We can also add New ICOs section, something similar to SHOW HN to cover ICOs as well.

And also web generally gives free hand to lead the project as you and your users want to compared to a subreddit. And as a programmer I love that feeling. :)

It's like internet forums all over again. Every "subreddit" can be hosted somewhere else. This is fine.

i thought Hacker news _is_ the hacker news for cryptocurrency... lol.

this is a news aggregator site, just like HN

True that.

But now the title sounds like a clickbait :( (Had no intention of that)

I was more joking about HN constantly have front page on cryptocurrencies/blockchain, i don't need a dedicated one lol as there's more than I need(but I am specifically not interested in that I am sure others are)

Hahaha, I agree to that too. Maybe this could help to reduce that.

Nice set of links so far. I hope this gets some traction.

Gray on white isn't the easiest for my old eyes, though.

Thanks.

Would try to tweak some colors.

The clicked links accumulate so if you click 'Newest' 3 times in a row you have to go back 3 times to get back to the home. Don't add links to history if the same url is already on top.

Thanks. Resolving this.

Is there a way to filter only news like, eg, when new coins get launched, when there are rumors about coins getting added to exchanges, when they actually got added? I'm following the space a bit, but the signal-to-noise ratio is terrible.

An idea for a project that would be really useful IMHO: a calendar with all releases/rumors about additions/actual additions to exchanges. I would even pay a bit for that :)

You are so correct. Even I face this problem a lot. I will try to see what I can do but unfortunately that is not possible right now.

With so many ICOs coming in, getting the info is correct info is so much difficult. But icoalert.com is doing good work in ICO launch details and timing. Hope this helps.

If you start working on this, let me know. I could want to help somehow. You can find my email on my profile

Sure. Dropping you an email

Type is too large. Too much white, hard on the eyes. Logo looks like Comic Sans? That's a poor choice.

Thanks for suggestion. Changed the color. Working on others.

Looks a lot better but you probably need darker font... Font is gray on soft white background (soft white is a big improvement) but now you prob need black font.

I can barely fit 3 posts at one time on my mobile screen as opposed to 10 HN posts. This is way too big.

Changed it now.

You might wanna include more sources for your aggregation, including subreddits....

Take a look at https://cryptopanic.com

Sure, would have a look. The aim is to drive content and curation with the help of users.

Bad Request: 400

gunicorn is not happy with you, apparently ;)

Hahaha. It is happy now.

Just curious, did you remove any submissions?

getting a "Bad Request: 400" error.

same here

Updated. Please check again. :)

Still not working.

No RSS feed?

That's the next thing in mind. There are some minor bugs which needs to be resolved, will put rss feed after that.

Broken

Can you please check again. Figured out the error and changed it.

Ugly.

Please help me improve. Is there anything specific you would like me to change?

Design cannot be fixed with incremental improvements like a review in a PR. If you don't have talent for eye candy, you don't have it. Hire a good designer.

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