> So you're talking about a year and a half window since it was first conceived to have such discussion, less than 12% of the entire time bitcoin has been in existence.
It doesn’t matter. My point is that was the only time the discussion was actually dominated by people interested in the technology. It’s a reference to a point in time and the tone of discussion around then. I was in security academia at the time and discussions were level-headed about bitcoin, hash cash, and other digital currencies.
> there was probably some talk about it eventually being exchanged for USD right from the start.
There was, but that wasn’t the technology talk that dominated the discussion. There is a reason it sat around for so long until the famous pizza purchase. It was about the technology at the start.
> Yeah that's not true. On HN that may be more or less true (although I care about the tech and I'm on HN), but there's plenty of people that care about the tech and are discussing it in other channels.
To a rough approximation, it’s about 0% of the people interested in crypto though. There are maybe a few thousand actual active crypto developers (and that’s being generous). The number of people who buy crypto to invest/gamble is now in the millions. The conversations are always going to be dominated by topics surrounding the latter because it’s so controversial.
The only way to get to technical discussions is to weed out the people who don’t like it, so you basically have to stay off any general technology forums (HN, chunks of Reddit, etc).
> And intelligently, too, not just "I like the web3 makes me money go fast moon please." like it seems everyone on HN assumes these people think.
That’s a strawman of crypto detractors. It doesn’t help you to model opposing arguments that way.
> There are people legitimately trying to do new and interesting (to me anyway) things with the space, and donating their time and energy and cash to try to build it and make it happen.
Sure, but pretending to invent an entire new generation of the internet (“web3”) is overly grandiose and the better discussions happen around specific technologies.
It doesn’t matter. My point is that was the only time the discussion was actually dominated by people interested in the technology. It’s a reference to a point in time and the tone of discussion around then. I was in security academia at the time and discussions were level-headed about bitcoin, hash cash, and other digital currencies.
> there was probably some talk about it eventually being exchanged for USD right from the start.
There was, but that wasn’t the technology talk that dominated the discussion. There is a reason it sat around for so long until the famous pizza purchase. It was about the technology at the start.
> Yeah that's not true. On HN that may be more or less true (although I care about the tech and I'm on HN), but there's plenty of people that care about the tech and are discussing it in other channels.
To a rough approximation, it’s about 0% of the people interested in crypto though. There are maybe a few thousand actual active crypto developers (and that’s being generous). The number of people who buy crypto to invest/gamble is now in the millions. The conversations are always going to be dominated by topics surrounding the latter because it’s so controversial.
The only way to get to technical discussions is to weed out the people who don’t like it, so you basically have to stay off any general technology forums (HN, chunks of Reddit, etc).
> And intelligently, too, not just "I like the web3 makes me money go fast moon please." like it seems everyone on HN assumes these people think.
That’s a strawman of crypto detractors. It doesn’t help you to model opposing arguments that way.
> There are people legitimately trying to do new and interesting (to me anyway) things with the space, and donating their time and energy and cash to try to build it and make it happen.
Sure, but pretending to invent an entire new generation of the internet (“web3”) is overly grandiose and the better discussions happen around specific technologies.