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Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

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298 points vega_empire | 2 comments | 23 Dec 17 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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companyhen ◴[23 Dec 17 16:38 UTC] No.15994856[source]▶
Seems like majority of HN hates crypto which is disappointing. Luckily there are a ton of great subreddits, slack, telegram, and discord channels out there.
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1. relyio ◴[23 Dec 17 19:44 UTC] No.15995894[source]▶
There is clearly an interest because we routinely see links about crypto-backed currencies make it to the front page but the quality of comments is usually astonishingly low. I don't know if that is because people "hate it" or if they overestimate their own knowledge of the topic.
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2. tfha ◴[23 Dec 17 20:06 UTC] No.15995999[source]▶
There's definitely a massive amount of dunning-krueger happening in cryptocurrency. I see a lot of that in these threads.

But I think the real reason the threads are low quality is a lot more disappointing. There are a lot of people who (often they aren't even HN regulars) have heavy vested interests in cryptocurrency, in a certain philosophy, in a certain coin, and so they brigade to protect their interests and to steer the ideas of the public in their preferred direction. So people will speak up even if they know it's not really their area of expertise