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Dan Romero
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Dan Romero's personal blog at danromero.org covers startups and business. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Crypto Reading”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Crypto Reading8 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-08-01
- Startup Canon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
- The Toothbrush Test2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-02
What Hacker News says?
This is the highest signal list I'm aware of on the topic: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ For a book with more in the weeds details: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency-Technologies-C...
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on “Stripe Crypto”Submitted Crypto Reading as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI found this to be a pretty good list: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ Some more details here if you're curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27812093
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on “$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date”Submitted Farcaster Raises $150M at $1B valuation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou’re asking this on HN so are likely to get 95% of people agreeing with you from confirmation bias alone. Median HN hates cryptocurrency. I’d probably suggest this: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti... I think it’s not “all a scam”, but there are definitely scammers in the community which add a lot of noise to what’s a pretty cool new capability to handle decentralized state. https://dan…
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on “Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?”Submitted Startup Canon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVitalik’s blog posts are probably best. [0] There are also some decent selections here: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ [0]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/09/26/limits.html
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on “Ethereum Services Are Centralized”Submitted The Toothbrush Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUpdate to my other reply: > This list is good: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ This is not a good list. Half of those are basically marketing links, including the ridiculous things like "NFTs make the internet ownable". The other half is literally "why the hell anyone would want this?" like "Ethereum is a dark forest". None of them address any of the issues in the crypto space. Literally none of them connect t…
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on “Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value”Submitted The Toothbrush Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPrevious threads that go into details/have interesting conversation about specific capabilities so we don't have to rehash all of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30729538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30630008 If I had to pick one general one, probably this: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti... This list is good: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ For your specifics…
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on “Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value”Submitted Free Startup Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah - I started off cautiously optimistic, but I've gotten more and more confident in its long term future. The DeFi tech is real, but early. Vitalik Buterin is a really good leader for Ethereum and development. Vitalik Interview: https://www.stitcher.com/show/rationally-speaking/episode/in... This is a worthwhile list to read through: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ The main issue for outsiders is that the i…
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on “The crypto movement is destroying itself”Submitted Crypto Reading as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://danromero.org/crypto-reading/
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on “Ask HN: How do I get started with learning about crypto?”Submitted Daring Fireball-Style Linklog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a story · 2 points
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