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tptacek on May 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Want Hacker News Comment Scores Back? Check out HN...

You got downvoted for apparent snark, but for what it's worth: me too. It's pernicious, too, because those comments can germinate in any thread involving money, banking, cryptography, and markets.

Locke1689 on May 20, 2011 [–]

Bitcoin's primary use case seems to be generating karma on HN. As a friend put it: "Bitcoin is ruining HN."

As it stands, I'm hoping that Bitcoin is just one of those waves like Erlang was.

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