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Comment by sailingparrot | Hacker News Reader

> Bitcoin and blockchain are genius technology, on par with the greatest achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.

How one can say that with a straight face is beyond me.

And I say this as someone that find blockchain mechanisms/ideas very interesting.

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a distributed trusted ledger, where each selfish agent has to cooperate, while all transaction are out in public ... all on mathematical foundations, and it actually works in practice?

how is that not genius?

Yes it's pretty amazing I agree.

I don't think your appreciation of blockchain is wrong. I think it is your appreciation for the greatest achievements in theoretical physics and mathematics that is.

I agree with you one this...but for whatever reason it is not the prevailing opinion on HN. I think that is largely due to the fact that many people on here knew of it early enough to become fabulously rich, but dismissed it out of hand without really looking into it.

Oh yes, exactly how big minds on r/cryptocurrency said recently - gamers from r/gaming and r/pcgaming don't know how to properly play games and don't see true benefits of play2earn promised by crypto apologists; and programmers on r/programming are one month juniors after online courses who have no idea about computer science, blockchains and finance. Yes, that is definitely what's going on.

There seems to be a lot of a unhealthy bitter jealousy on HN toward cryptocurrency. And I believe you've nailed the reason why.

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