On: Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)

[DonHopkins]

For somebody with such an unhealthy obsession with consensus based trust, you're certainly disturbed by the consensus on Hacker News that cryptocurrencies are a scam, and the widespread and uniform distrust of people who shill them.

What's so bad about consensus and trust, again?

Is the only kind of consensus you trust the kind of consensus that's arrived at by burning tons of coal?

[cowtools → DonHopkins]

To be fair, HN discussions are prone to sybil attacks, of which cryptocurrencies are not.