What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
Hackernews is what I would consider a website with solid discussion about technology. However it's extremely skeptical when it comes to cryptocurrency.
I'd like know if there is a similar technically minded community for crypto.
I sometimes read /r/CryptoCurrency but its mostly shilling and asking about prices, so it doesn't really interest me.
HN is extremely skeptical about everything, because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer
https://stacker.news/ Is really fun if you’re interested in primarily bitcoin.
You can authenticate yourself with a tiny tiny bitcoin payment over the lightning network.
HN is full of disgruntled haters. There are lots of DAOs that discuss crypto. I recently joined the FWB DAO https://www.fwb.help/ which has a pretty vibrant community. The one caveat is that you need to prove you own 75 FWB tokens to gain access (subject to change based on a seasonal community vote). The benefit is that it keeps spammers out. Generally the discussions and community members have been pretty high quality.
The profit incentive in crypto created a real incentive to creating and exploiting asymmetric / proprietary information that mirrors existing finance markets. The sad truth is that this causes basically every crypto community to devolve into shilling and pricing discussions. It’s the same thing you see with stocks; anyone willing to give you insight into the market is likely playing the other side.
Even technical discussions devolve into arguments about how things will be priced; but this is all because everyone is trying to make their altcoin a meme and become rich. When success equals a huge payday and the risk to shilling is so low, it infiltrates all discussion around a topic.
I'm not 100% clear if you're looking for a pro crypto currency community that has thoughtful technical discussions OR a community that is more focused about being skeptical of crypto currency. I don't know of anywhere good for the former but if it's skepticism - https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/ is the only place I know of that is focused on criticism and mocking of crypto currency and the related community.
Rekt.news. Where else can you find this elite level of forensic analysis combined with wild speculation. Exploits will prove far more interesting historically than funding rounds in these still nascent days of early BTC adoption ;)
https://rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/
Searching for a bubble that reinforces your existing views is probably not the best way to learn more about any given topic.
Pretty much Twitter at this point for me. There's too much pessimism on HN when it comes to crypto. I appreciate criticism but Twitter has all the deep thinkers
The Daily Ape by Darren Lau (t.me/thedailyape)
The Bankless podcast/newsletter
These are some solid news sources, if you don't have time to follow everyone on twitter
a) I hand my friend a $1 coin/note.
b) I socialise the transaction and have everyone try be the first to crack an algorithm that proves I've given my friend a cryptocoin worth $1
There's a community out there claiming one solves a bunch of problems the other had. You tell me...
You might have more success looking for a HN of cryptography, rather than cryptocurrency. That is, if you want an understanding of the mathematics and solid discussions about the technology. If you look for discussions on the economics/finance, well it's no surprise you're only going to find pump-and-dump schemes and scams and shilling and BS.
If you can deal with the finance-speak and excessive hustlerism, Bowtied Bull on Substack has some interesting commentary. Their old blog (Wall Street Playboys) was equally as interesting as it was offputting.
Perhaps check out 1729.com, Balaji Srinivasan's newsletter/community building effort. The project is pretty optimistic re: using cryptocurrency's properties for positive goals.
# Multireddit
I created a multireddit to this and I use it to read information on the topic.
https://www.reddit.com/user/jvlg/m/cryptocurrencies/
@GGfpc I think that this is a good way of tracking a topic in depth.
# Create a youtube channel to track a topic
You can create a youtube channel per topic of interest and use it to subscribe to channels related to the topic and even publish some content on it later.
Follow the right people on twitter. I would start by following different crypto projects or topics on twitter. And then people that have interesting tweets.. look at their feed and follow.
Here is a bitcoin topic I follow
https://twitter.com/i/topics/1007360414114435072
You can join us on https://stacker.news if you're into Bitcoin. I'm the maker.
It appears even this question was heavily downvoted based on its rank and timing relative to older, fewer upvoted Ask posts.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
You are on your own here. Every one you'll ever meet on crypto forums is 99% of the time trying to get you to buy whatever shiny butt coin it is that they are holding. There are no exceptions to this rule.
this love-hate relationship with all new tech is a meme on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
currently i see it happening with Kubernetes - one league absolutely loves it, another absolutely despises it
But there isn't a website with comment threads that are high quality. Most of the quality crypto discussions happen in Telegram and Discord.
I've realized one of the reasons programmers dislike cryptocurrency is because they value efficiency more than they understand incentive systems. They complain that crypto is inefficient and unoptimized and miss that it's an entirely new incentive system.
There's a lot to be skeptical of in the cryptocurrency space, but a community centered around outsized gains through startups should remember that pessimists get to be right and optimists get to be rich.
I would consider HN a pretty pro-crypto community.
HN is the HN of cryptocurrency. ;-)