[troupo]

This really begs the meme with a guy pointing at a butterfly and saying "is this crypto".

The rest of the analysis seems to be even-handed, but the intro...

[myrmidon]

I think that is a bit too harsh.

IMO the author made good points for his "this is a good example of applied crypto-values" viewpoint, and also stated quite clearly what he ment by that (i.e. "algorithmic" moderation, transparent and retraceable results).

It was absolutely worth reading-- this was a genuinely interesting blog post, not some cryptobro pushing the latest scam-- don't be discouraged from reading this!

[douglaswlance]

The author is a co-creator of Ethereum. He's one of the most well-known voices in crypto. Almost every post on his blog is about crypto.

[pavlov]

If you own the nail factory, even cooking will start looking like a problem best solved with lots of hammering.

(Apologies to the person who actually manufactures nails. I know it’s not fair to compare your useful industry to crypto.)

[troupo]

And that somehow makes his invalid comparisons valid?

Someone else said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292374

[TimJRobinson]

It makes sense though. The whole point of crypto is to build open, transparent systems, without a central authority, that can't be manipulated. This is a really really hard problem.

Most crypto projects fail on one of those axis, so it's worth studying the project that have those properties and actually succeed.

[BlueTemplar]

And it would only have required to call it "decentralization(-adjacent) values"...

[throwaway2990]

I almost stopped teasing because of the intro.