>As I type this my comment sits at 0 points, as does every comment I make even remotely critical of bitcoin and the blockchain. Why does HN hate people that are critical of bitcoin?
No offense, but you don't appear to understand these subjects very well and you seem to have limited knowledge of them, yet you persist in commenting on them and thereby spreading misinformation.
Possibly you believe you understand the subject better that you actually do? You're not the only person falling into this trap, and I'm sure you intend no malice, but this may be why you get a few downvotes.
I happened to notice this a few days ago, when you made a statement about bitcoin that a few seconds on Google could have shown you was poorly-informed. That's OK, everyone makes mistakes like this sometimes, but when I pointed out the error, you unfortunately tried to divert attention with an extremely weak strawman argument, and then just stopped responding. It's tiresome.
There are many, many criticisms that you could make of blockchain technology and bitcoin, not least of which is that nobody even knows for sure if they will work as intended as they scale up. There's no need to leap into the debate with such poorly-informed statements
No offense, but you don't appear to understand these subjects very well and you seem to have limited knowledge of them, yet you persist in commenting on them and thereby spreading misinformation.
Possibly you believe you understand the subject better that you actually do? You're not the only person falling into this trap, and I'm sure you intend no malice, but this may be why you get a few downvotes.
I happened to notice this a few days ago, when you made a statement about bitcoin that a few seconds on Google could have shown you was poorly-informed. That's OK, everyone makes mistakes like this sometimes, but when I pointed out the error, you unfortunately tried to divert attention with an extremely weak strawman argument, and then just stopped responding. It's tiresome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837379
There are many, many criticisms that you could make of blockchain technology and bitcoin, not least of which is that nobody even knows for sure if they will work as intended as they scale up. There's no need to leap into the debate with such poorly-informed statements