The people who got on Google identified a company with a profitable idea and provided it funds to realize that idea.
I don’t love cryptocurrency stuff, I mean it is a bit environmentally wasteful and stupid, but lots of things are wasteful and stupid so it doesn’t give me some visceral negative reaction. I think the folks who really hate it here are just annoyed that there’s all this vaguely tech-flavored scammy behavior going on that, shows up on their favorite news sites (because it is vaguely techy), maybe gets promoted to them, etc etc.
I don’t love cryptocurrency stuff, I mean it is a bit environmentally wasteful and stupid, but lots of things are wasteful and stupid so it doesn’t give me some visceral negative reaction. I think the folks who really hate it here are just annoyed that there’s all this vaguely tech-flavored scammy behavior going on that, shows up on their favorite news sites (because it is vaguely techy), maybe gets promoted to them, etc etc.