And, I don't think HN is "highly anti-crypto". There are quite a few pro-crypto people here, and quite a few skeptics. Each side probably feels that HN is biased the other way, because HN (as a whole) doesn't whole-heartedly embrace what each side considers self-evident.
In a decade, though, it has gone approximately nowhere [1], while I've been forced to deal with an incredible amount of hype. I am anti-Bitcoin in the same way I'm anti-Jehovah's-Witness: if they would just stop knocking on my door all the time to share the good news, I'd be happy to ignore them in return. But at least the JWs aren't losing hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money every time I turn around.
[1] In contrast to, say M-Pesa, which in the same period became a daily-use digital money for millions and millions of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
The title should be: "10 years and going strong, venture capital backed 'entrepreneur' declares Bitcoin is dead"