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Comment by rsrx | Hacker News Reader

Controversial take, but the amount of salty comments on crypto here always amuses me.

You're only going to see the salty and bullish takes, the truly neutral have nothing to say about it.

Comments on other internet sources I follow are mostly mixed bag of beans, however here they are prevalently salty when it comes to crypto and every time I stumble upon topic like this I wonder why. I was expecting that HN audience sees blockchain tech and bitcoin for what it is, and unique capabilities it offers, beyond "omg its a ponzi scheme!!11!" narrative.

I've used bitcoin for short term transactions to get some money to people that needed it, but in spite of that I have no illusions about that being the exception and not the rule.

At some point tech needs to prove itself through utility and economic viability. This is going to be a difficult to achieve thing for all these coins (BTC and others), and in the bulk of the cases they are money grabs or Ponzi schemes.

That does not help, if the money grabs and the Ponzi schemes (which happen in the 'real world' as well) were a very insignificant minority I suspect the sentiment would be entirely different.

Possibly people are richer than in Reddit and got burned more heavily in the past buying at the wrong time?

Where's the take? As it stands it's a silly flame-bait.

Anyone that uses the word "salty" makes me think they're 16 years old.

That word along with "cringe" desperately needs to get removed from the lexicon.

Sounds salty tho

I rest my case.

It's futile to ask for things to be removed from the lexicon. Language advances and those 16-year-olds will decide how they speak now and in the future.

I think this is already outdated but a fitting response to your comment could also be "ok boomer"

"ok boomer" is also broken, particularly since it neglects to address the ways that younger generations are all equally narcissistic, just in different ways (plus it's the wrong generation).

and its not "fitting" it is just another useless "zinger" that suppresses thought.

yes, i'm suggesting that the human race attempt to evolve past the use of language constructs that shut down thought.

yes, i'm aware that i'm just yelling at clouds for all the good it'll do.

and actually i'm suggesting that language DOES evolve, but do it into something better. not just every generation inventing its own thoughtless zingers, which is just masturbation applied to evolution of language and thought.

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