[forgetfulness]

Majority opinions seem to lean towards Bitcoin being a net detriment to society but HN will attract a really loud minority of Bitcoin diehards, for tech or profit.

Or so I thought, the amount of people taking offense at Bill Gates saying the uncontroversial is impressive.

[mattwilsonn888]

Arguing from the conclusion, are we?

[forgetfulness]

I mean I'm going by precedent, there's popular HN threads every so often decrying the externalities or lack of utility of Bitcoin, the comments supporting the articles rise to the top but there's a handful of people saying that Bitcoin is still worth it somehow.

Now there's a lot of people attacking Bill Gates for lending his image to the arguments. It could be that there's a majority of Bitcoin believers here but they don't usually care for arguments and just do "he he miner goes brrr" until a celebrity billionaire appears.

[rawtxapp]

Maybe there's some overlap between HN anti-crypto crowd and those who remember Bill Gates track record at MSFT (ex: IE antitrust, anti-Linux).