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There is plenty of informed criticism of BitCoin out there. I'm saying that you shouldn't bother reading it from this person.

I might even agree with him, but I don't read articles by trolls as a matter of personal policy.

Other HN users might not know what he has written in the past, so I thought it was a good idea to inform them.

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This is actually one of the best authors people can read from. Regarding your second link, Krugman has already admitted his prediction did not come to pass.

On a number of issues Krugman has proven a good deal more accurate than other economists, such as: -Whether or not Federal Reserve would cause inflation -Whether the stimulus in 2008 would help the economy -Whether or not Obamacare would work and more on his near daily blogging/tweeting.

Sure he's definitely made mistakes, but who hasn't, and at least he has owned up to them.

Generally agreed. Re: the markets never recovering post-Trump, he retracted that prediction shortly after making it, and admitted it was something he said in the heat of the moment, without properly thinking things through: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/the-long-haul

I follow a podcast dedicated to his fallacies (contrakrugman). He may be an expert on some issues, but he fails in many others, some miserably. He was clueless about Bitcoin years ago perhaps he learnt some now but his credibility on the issue is rather low.

fallacies? Hardly, that is like saying I listen to Rush Limbaugh to disprove the fallacies of Rachel Maddow.

One of the hosts of that podcast is an evolution denier. Not someone I’d expect to get valuable insight from

Care to provide a reference? Also I do not think it matters. At least one of them is a prominent economist.

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