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> 2. You aim to build a community, but in reality 90% of your telegram/discord are scammers and people asking why price is going down/accusations that you and your entire team should go to jail.

I'm consistently repulsed by the lack of thoughtful discussion in crypto communities. For a space littered with intriguing technology it's endlessly frustrating that there's no HN-like forum. Instead, any community that started off that way is now filled with speculators and shillers.

Take your pick for where to source your news: 1. crypto influencers on YouTube who are paid to shill, 2. forums likw Reddit filled with speculators and conmen, 3. pump and dump groups on Telegram.

The greed and FOMO on display in the crypto gold-rush is deeply depressing, and for the majority who join the craze at the peak of the bull run, it'll surely end in tears.

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> it's endlessly frustrating that there's no HN-like forum

There are communities like this, such as the crypto dev discord, the daily gwei discord, ethereum cat herders discord, etc. You're just in the wrong communities. That's like spending time on 4chan and saying "the internet sucks, it's filled with horrible people and no thoughtful discussions."

I do think it's scattered, but certainly there. There are many high-quality and thoughtful Twitter posters but you really have to filter. Meanwhile, I think there is room for a crypto HN since HN is actively hostile to anything positive towards crypto.

What do you think of this as a starting point: https://datapeek.org/?explorer_view=quest ?

> Take your pick for where to source your news [actual answers]:

1. Newsletters. One basic example is Bitcoin Optech. I've always been the kind of person who looks at any newsletter just about long enough to put it in Trash. But I've come to understand there are plenty of greatly curated and/or written ones out there.

2. Podcasts. I can recommend Unconfirmed and Zero Knowledge, for example.

3. Discord (I know I miss out by not going here but the noise-to-signal ration and complete lack of privacy/anonymity/anything like that are both too much. It makes me a bit sad that this is where the action is even for infrastructure and supposedly open/freedom-asserting projects.)

Can be non-trivial to find the good ones for whatever angle/topic you are interested in, of course.

> The greed and FOMO on display in the crypto gold-rush is deeply depressing

Absolutely agree and I couldn't agree more with the comment you're replying to.

For podcasts I recommend Uncommon Core (technical) and Up Only (which despite the name is not just “up only” shilling and has excellent guests lineups)

I recommend Kevin Rose's podcast MoFi (Modern Finance). He has some great interviews and seems very knowledgeable on the topic.

I’ve been thinking about forking HN to have crypto discussions, I really wish there was a board like this which only talked about technical stuff of crypto

you should do it! and make sure to post a "Show HN" if you do ...

This would be great.

I think this depends on the coin. The IOTA discord is quite interesting, and people using the tech. Not sure IOTA will be a thing though, but I still like reading the discussions in the Discord.

Its more so frustrating to me that they become tribal by necessity!

You cant discuss flaws in the current design or future design because people think you are attacking their investment!

The Epicenter Podcast is also an excellent source for technical content that I don't see mentioned in any of the children comments.

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