> This is the sort of thing that gets bitcoins called "Dunning-Krugerrands."
> This is the sort of thing that gets bitcoins called "Dunning-Krugerrands."
Many of the articles on that wiki is written by people with only rudimentary knowledge of the topic that they're writing about, yet the authors claim to be experts, and "debunk" and criticize things without even doing any research.
Take http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scrying as an example.
There have actually been quite a few real scientific studies on scrying, and while there may be little evidence of psychic powers, there is good evidence that staring at a point, for example on a crystal ball or the surface of water, leads some people to see dream-like hallucinations at the point where they are staring. See for example http://books.google.com/books?id=am9NAAAAYAAJ&q=crystal+ball...
Bitcoin is a scam
Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme
There is zero chance that bitcoin will ever be mainstream
Bitcoin does not have a single advantage over fiat currency
Bitcoin will never be useful for online shopping
None of the problems with bitcoin can be fixed
All bitcoin users and developers are incompetent, does not know anything about economics, does not understand people at all and has no understanding on how to build reliable financial computing infrastructure
Looks pretty one-sided to me.
Also, on HN, a line in italics usually means "this is a direct quote," so it's generally taboo to put things in italics which you didn't copy-paste from some source. For example, the word "mainstream" never appears in the article, so it shouldn't be in an italicized line.
Thanks for letting me know about italics, it was meant as a list and not a quote. I'll make sure to remember for next time :)