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Comment by MBCook

4 years ago

There is a group of users here on HN that REALLY like cryptocurrency‘s and blockchains and such. Web3 seems to be the latest on that hype-train.

There is a different group here on HM that REALLY hates it all. It was interesting technologically but then it started producing more CO2 and using more energy than reasonably sized countries. It also seems to be the method du jour for scammers to take money from people. It’s almost single handedly enabled the ransomware industry.

And people like to shit on the current hot thing, deservedly or not.

So here we are.