Suggest HN: make a separate community just for Bitcoin articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6865868

by bitops • 13 years ago

25 19 13 years ago

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I feel like HN is being taken over by news about Bitcoin. I find Bitcoin fascinating and interesting, but far too many articles are posted about it here. It's just a lot of pro/con churn and very little real news.

Bitcoin will take some time to evolve. Don't miss the forest for the trees; don't miss the trees for the bark.

tylerdurd3n• 13 years ago

Yes, I am sick of Bitcoin posts, please get away!

kanishkkunal2• 13 years ago

Agreed!

kanishkkunal2• 13 years ago

Wow, someone down voted me and took away that 1 karma I had, just because I agreed with this topic.

sunseb• 13 years ago

Agreed ! And the best way to earn bitcoins in the future : make your startup successful !

derefr• 13 years ago

I find it amusing—and just a little ironic—that the only truly "HN-material" Bitcoin article I've seen (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862727) was posted just today.

Look at the discussion that that article triggered. It's HN at its best, discussing Bitcoin in the same manner we would discuss, say, Nginx. From now on, if anyone needs an article to point to to explain the difference between "discussing a politicized technology" and "discussing the politics of a technology," this one should do.

Now we just have to manage a purely-technical discussion of Tor...

hkmurakami• 13 years ago

Flagging them is probably plenty effective.

mithras• 13 years ago

As a real bitcoin supporter I agree. It's too much for the casual HN reader and the die hard bitcoin users have usually heard the news through other channels.

clarry• 13 years ago

Suggest HN: make a separate community just for javascript & web crapps.

And for articles about big tech corps (Google, MS, Apple, etc.) doing this and that, repeated in all mainstream tech media.

Same for politics.

anthracis417• 13 years ago

Suggest HN: make a separate community just for:

X program in X amount of lines Why I like this programming language Patent trolls

naiyt2• 13 years ago

There's a large community over at http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin. Most of the Bitcoin posts we see here could likely be relegated to a more specific venue like that. I do like seeing interesting Bitcoin posts here from time to time, but it does seem like everyday there's a slew of new Bitcoin posts.

andrewljohnson• 13 years ago

/r/bitcoinmarkets is better

naiyt2• 13 years ago

I haven't been there before. What makes it better? (/r/bitcoin could definitely use a lot of improvement, of course, so an improved sub would be interesting to me.)

VMG• 13 years ago

Is it? The chart-voodoo makes me cringe

dlsym• 13 years ago

Yay! Subhns! I suggest news.ycombinator.com/hn/bitcoin

But yes. I agree. The amount of Bitcoin related posts is too damn high.

Edit: Link.

knowitall• 13 years ago

God forbid anybody could be interested in other things than you are.

Btw your submission singlehandedly increased the amount of Bitcoin articles on the HN front page by 33%.

lcedp• 13 years ago

I'm sick of posts suggesting to resolve the Bitcoin posts issue more than of the posts itself.

pmcpinto• 13 years ago

During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.

I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.

unlimited_power• 13 years ago

Already built: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867232

Suggest HN: make a separate community just for Bitcoin articles

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