Old Hacker news discussion about Bitcoin

[uneng]

A lot of people got arrested for creating their own currencies back in the day, so some pessisim should have been expected. So, be honest.. would you have reacted any different if it was you back then? 

No, on that time I would think it was just an internal currency to be used by internet forum members, secret societies and virtual antisocial young groups. How could people know bitcoin would be adopted by big investors and speculators on the next years?
I think that was the secret of success for bitcoin: it started without much noise, without awakening the attention of banks and governments, otherwise bitcoin could be destroyed on its beginning.

[CryptoBry]

Found some replies regarding bitcoin in the old hacker news websites. You just have to to look at the first reply and see how 'ignorant' people are back in the early days.  Grin. We can't blame them though, we haven't seen this kind of technology before, so it's understandable that people will question its intention and the impact it could 'potentially' bring to the world.

I think ignorant is not the right term because on those days there were limited information on bitcoin and people then were getting hard to understand what is cryptocurrency. This is just a progression of change and when you introduce something new people will doubt it, of course because the move is pioneering and they don't have a successful model that they can easily relate. Maybe if we were privileged to be part of the few in those times witnessing the rise of bitcoin and without the capacity to predict the future, I am sure that many of us would not also bet on bitcoin.

[pawanjain]

Many people in the world today while being aware of what bitcoin is, living in the world of digitization are still ignorant about using bitcoin.
The main reason for this is negative views about bitcoin on the internet which leads to lower adoption. People portray bitcoin as a scam coin, bubble, illegal money etc..
This is why we haven't reached the point of mass adoption. It will only be possible for mass adoption when people start believing it and accepting it as legal money.

[boyptc]

Well, hearing out the idea would make you skeptic and negative about it and that's a pretty normal reaction for someone who haven't looked at the potential.

Where that guy could be right now?

Good question, maybe that individual is still leaving under the mom's basement and banging his computer screen for ridiculing bitcoin.  . But seriously, who wouldn't have thought that after 10 years, bitcoin still lives and the price could go as high as $20k a pop in 2017.

Who knows on where that guy could be?

At least he's looking to bitcoin now the idea that he mocked before is now skyrocketing.

[dothebeats]

Yep, just as I expected: full of skepticism due to the fact that the idea of an independent, decentralized currency away from a governing authority is mostly unheard of. While digital currencies aren't a new concept per se, only a few people believed in it, and take note that during the inception of bitcoin in 2009 right after the recession, many are just believing that new things popping left and right are basically money-grab opportunities. Fast forward 10 years and look, a lot of people are already using the said currency which, at first, was resented with heavy criticism.

[uray]

Found some replies regarding bitcoin in the old hacker news websites. You just have to to look at the first reply and see how 'ignorant' people are back in the early days.  . We can't blame them though, we haven't seen this kind of technology before, so it's understandable that people will question its intention and the impact it could 'potentially' bring to the world.

Those are genuine questions that anyone will have before the entire market blasted through the roof, how will you understand something like this could ever happen until it starts functioning and it was really hard for anyone to understand during that time to know what it mean by a currency without the support of any government, so those responses are genuine to the core as everyone had those questions when you first heard about a decentralized currency.

[Ryan Dugan]

Lol that first one though.

Found some replies regarding bitcoin in the old hacker news websites. You just have to to look at the first reply and see how 'ignorant' people are back in the early days.  . We can't blame them though, we haven't seen this kind of technology before, so it's understandable that people will question its intention and the impact it could 'potentially' bring to the world.

Those are genuine questions that anyone will have before the entire market blasted through the roof, how will you understand something like this could ever happen until it starts functioning and it was really hard for anyone to understand during that time to know what it mean by a currency without the support of any government, so those responses are genuine to the core as everyone had those questions when you first heard about a decentralized currency.

It was never hard for me to understand instead, it was exciting and a whole new world to explore. It still is and there is so much more for me to explore. I thought the idea of digital currency was just a matter of time and the first time I really thought of it was in an animated tv series called Batman of the future. The paid with credits that were digital and subtracted from a card they swiped. Very cool to see a few years later something very similar was born and that was bitcoin.

[blackhawkeye1912]

The first reply was relly nice to here especially these days. Those early non-believers of bitcoin might be bitcoin holders already as sokn as they saw the rise of bitcoin. And those early believers might be millionaire or billionaire already. Though, it's not too late to earn bigger profit here. Year 2019 is on the bullish period as of now.