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Comment by lkrubner | Hacker News Reader

The user @Proven has a comment that was downvoted and is now dead, but I'm not sure why. The comment seems reasonable. At least this part, I agree with:

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I can buy real assets rather than assume that these oracles, "Smart" Contracts, code dependencies, blockchain (network), and developers will remain stable in extreme conditions.

If you need stablecoin, that's because cryptocurrencies are useless to denominate prices. We may as well use a Central Bankster-backed coin (which no one invested in crypto wants to admit).

It may be harder to remain anonymous, but at least there's much less to fail (mostly just the currency itself, which is why buying real-world assets represented by tokens is a much better approach).

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Comments from banned accounts get killed by default. If you see a good comment that's dead, please don't copy it. Instead, vouch for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch). That's the entire reason for the vouching feature.

Other users vouched for that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521548), so now we have two copies of it in the thread—the original, plus yours—and a split discussion, which makes merging the threads a pain. I'll move the replies to the proper place, but please don't do this again. (edit: especially since you've done it before - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178929)

Sorry, I didn't know about "vouching". I'll do that in the future.

Appreciated!

Proven's comment is dead because they are banned. on hackernews banned users can still comment, but their comments start out [dead] until vouched. (comments that get downvoted and flagged enough also go [dead], as do comments deleted by HN mods)

if you have enough karma, you can vouch for banned user's comments by clicking the vouch button, it only shows on the direct page for the comment, you get by clicking the date of the comment.

I know all of this because I am banned.

Why are you banned? What's the process for being unbanned?

What dang taketh, he giveth back at his discretion.

As it happens, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29558596 answers both of those questions.

you spooked me with the last line. very dramatic—the imagery is of talking to an old man in a cemetary.

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