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by funfunfunction 2898 days ago
Another day, another Decentralized AI Privacy Blockchain project raising a ton of money from people who don't truly understand the intricacies of the problems trying to be solved. What's new?

I hate to be so cynical and this teams background does seem solid but I feel the same way when I see this as when the Prince of Nigeria personally reaches out to me for a loan. With all the other failed crypto projects these announcements feel like spam at this point..
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dang 2898 days ago
The site guidelines ask you not to post shallow dismissals to Hacker News, so could you please not? This comment doesn't clear that bar.

If you're right, then the thing to do is drop the snark and explain some of the "intricacies of the problems trying to be solved" instead of just vaguely alluding to them. Then we could learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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funfunfunction 2898 days ago
My apologies for the hyperbole. My comment was less about this particular project and more about the shaky ground that the entire cryptocurrency industry is currently standing on, seemingly in part due to announcements like this that claim to have solved the scalability problem of decentralization without providing much hard evidence. If there were specific technical claims, I would discuss them, but in this case there are not.

I think it's confusing to the public, who ultimately need to be confident in cryptocurrency as a whole if they're going to use it, when they find them asking, "wasn't this problem already solved by x?" every couple of months.

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