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This is so strange. You have been in HN long enough to know that this forum used to be very pro-crypto/coin. After a decade or more of failed promises, failed currencies, scam after scam, and billions of dollars in value squandered, HN is only just in the last year starting to take a more critical stance.

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That’s not my recollection. Here’s an example from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5532255

Also I remember people complaining about wash trading since forever.

Edit: I remember people posting literal ponzis a decade ago. Like sites titled “Bitcoin Ponzi” or similar. Or Satoshi Dice—can’t remember if that was posted here.

> that this forum used to be very pro-crypto/coin

Huh? I've been on HN for a long time and I don't remember it ever being pro-crypto. People got excited about BTC and ETH in the old days but HN was one of the few places on the internet where people were always sceptical of the crypto hype.

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