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“Everyone keeps reporting about how this bank keeps getting robbed every day but no one is reporting about how their ATM sometimes works okay.”

I think most of HN are atheists who don't buy in to the cryptocurrency religion.

You sat there waiting to copy and paste this comment weren’t you?

Perhaps it was posted using a DAO running a SmartContract on The B_Chain?

;)

Answering a question with a question (especially a totally unrelated one) isn't a great start to a conversation.

Given that we have seen tons of scams in crypto like this random project and now a payments platform called Stripe has joined in (needs no introduction), I am now asking you, (assuming you know what Stripe is and what they do) where is the scam that Stripe is doing in their announcement of Crypto payouts?

HN does not have a nuanced view of this space. There's a lingering assumption that everyone involved in crypto naively wants the "old way" gone in favor of bitcoin, which is completely absurd, or that the rest are scammers.

Well, basically everyone I've talked with on here about it that supports blockchain and cryptocurrencies has either explicitly or implicitly taken that position (that "fiat" should be replaced by cryptocurrency), so yeah, that is my assumption.

We agree there is a group of people who don't have a nuanced view of the cryptocurrency space. But you seem to have overlooked about 99% of people advocating for crypto.

Bad look to be silencing negative opinions about YC backed companies. Seeing this more and more lately, and am assuming my comment noting this will be gone soon too.

Just to be clear: I downvoted this because I sincerely believe it is not true. I have seen enough negative things about YC backed companies here, especially about Stripe, that I don't buy support spreading this kind of narrative without any evidence. It's not helpful or healthy for this community to spread false accusations.

> I downvoted this because I sincerely believe it is not true. I have seen enough negative things about YC backed companies here, especially about Stripe, that I don't buy support spreading this kind of narrative without any evidence.

What narrative? What false accusations exactly?

I see "Crypto is scam" comments on here from time to time and I'm looking for an explanation about Stripe's entrance into using crypto-currencies [0] themselves without any answers.

It's interesting to see that all the replies here have deliberately avoided my question into where the actual scamming that Stripe is doing in offering crypto payouts, since others like to scream the same "Crypto is scam", 'snake oil' nonsense.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

> Bad look to be silencing negative opinions about YC backed companies.

That narrative. I wasn't replying to you, but to the "am assuming my comment noting this will be gone soon too" statement as his comment was bound for a lot of dislikes and I wanted to give him an explanation that that has nothing to do with his perceived reality.

I don't care about the Stripe feature and it's not related to the topic of this post, except that both is crypto. If you haven't gotten any satisfying replies in the actual submission you linked why do you think it's necessary to ask about what Stripe is doing in an unrelated story just because it's about bad crypto practices and then complain that you don't get answers to the derail?

If you post a story that details that Stripe is actually scamming with crypto (more than just offering the option) I'm sure it would get traction.

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