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Posting cryptoasset focused articles on HN is such a weird thing. Do you expect level headed unbiased commentary or are you trying to reaffirm some internally held biases? HN's response is not variable with regards to crypto, it's predictable, but in a world where you can't buy anything with karma, what is the point? Be more interesting than that.

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It’s possible to still have fruitful conversations with a completely negative valence. And it’s not even completely negative. There’s always people making comments like these ones, of the form “woe is me, everyone is unfair to my favorite scam!”

My fav scam is TCP/IP. I can’t believe they made every computer on earth speak it and in general accept traffic from anyone else on the planet! Without permission! Haha it’ll never work.

Not even clear to me what parallel you’re trying to draw, even under a generous interpretation.

Do you think 20 years from now people will be using (some variant of) BitTorrent protocol, invented in 2001 for peer to peer file exchange? I do.

Sure, seems believable to me. And it seems believable to me that people will be using blockchains for the few things they’re useful for.

But, you know, equities can be extremely useful while Enron stock can still be a scam.

TCP/IP is used for ransomware. I hope regulators save us from these criminals!

AES, the criminal math. Every day countless innocent bytes are diffused and confused JUST because someone might be watching. Where will the madness end!

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