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by mentos 3707 days ago
Like anything in life I think there is a bit of 'crab mentality' here where people don't want to see something succeed if they do not stand to see any reward from it.
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I think it's more a reaction to the culty "get rich quick" Bitcoin "investors". It seems that very few people are actually interested in Bitcoin for its UX and the things it enables, everyone is either get-rich-quick or anti-get-rich-quick.
>I think it's more a reaction to the culty "get rich quick" Bitcoin "investors".

Are there any other kind?

Besides, the fact that among the top 3 exchanges were the crap fests of "a man-week of amateur PHP code" and the like that were taken down speaks volumes about the kind of crap the bitcoin crowd can't see through.