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by thinbeige 3251 days ago
I think that crypto news are still underrepresented on HN. The recent crypto topics (such as ICOs, Solidity, Tezos, EOS, ETH's Parity which is btw written in Rust) surge in word-wide traffic outperforming last year trends (AI, bots, VR) by far.

I hunt for respective news on other sites because HN just provides the most important crypto news. There's a lot more out there, it's new and complex. It's good to read stuff multiple times from different sources to get familiar with this new world order.
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SomeStupidPoint 3251 days ago
....Just to double-check, you're serious right?
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thinbeige 3251 days ago
Yes, I am. There's also a lot of scam out there, almost every ICO feels like scam, but still. The more serious stuff catches such a huge attention, just the ecosystem around ETH got so big and mature (despite some recent exploits) that it's hard to ignore this space.

Just compare: not just few projects raised funds within days a startup would take months. If this is the future? IDK. But I know it's 10x better than how fundraising was before. And this is just one part of the crypto space.

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h1d 3251 days ago
> feel like scam

More like people flock onto immature projects with large sum of money hoping for a quick 5x making the projects look far larger than they should be and when they fail to deliver, depression is as large as their investment leading to feel they got scammed.

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SomeStupidPoint 3251 days ago
I'm not saying cryptocurrencies aren't interesting, I'm just saying you're overstating their case relative to other technologies and the novelty (eg, that it even is novel, as opposed to normal engineering on top of ideas that have been around decades) in saying that it's underrepresented.

(Also, AI and bots are the same topic, but that's a tangent.)

I would argue we should hear about them less than automated truck driving specifically, based on potential economic impact and current spending levels.

(Which, actually, seems to be about the trend -- we see small bursts of a few stories a day when a major event happens, but otherwise, it's mostly just a low murmur among other things.)

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Atheros 3251 days ago
Have there been any recent developments with automated truck driving? Has anything actually happened? We all agree that automated transportation will have an Enormous effect on society. It's been talked about a lot before. But stuff is actually happening today in Bitcoinland.

Currently the #8 position on the HN front page is an article about Dell releasing a new monitor.

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