Ask HN: Why does cryptocurrency subjects on HN lack curious conversations?
Svennek said it well, there is not much of interest left to discuss, the remaining ambiguities are up to taste, not novelty. The only interesting things are talking about whether decentralisation is a value in and off itself without e.g. equity and whether people actually inherently care about it. But those are charged topics, also because people who are all in on crypto have a material interest in pushing the idea that YES it is and YES they will. So you can&#x27;t have that remaining interesting conversation in a detached manner.  (In my analysis the no-coiners have much less to lose in this and so are able to have more detached conversation because if it turns out that people really go for decentralisation we can still hop on board, we won&#x27;t get rich anymore but we won&#x27;t drop much either - it is naive to assume that systems which wield <i>material power</i> and are intricately tied to the foundation for the private property rights crypto builds its use cases on would simply collapse. The same way we had banks and commodity billionaires before microsoft and google, we will have old wealth smoothly migrating into the new system - otherwise the old wealth wouldn&#x27;t adopt it).