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dergigi.com
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dergigi.com is a personal blog at dergigi.com about economics and philosophy. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Bitcoin Is Time”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link dergigi.com's 2021 post 'Bitcoin is time', cited to explain proof of work, ledgers and digital scarcity. One commenter recommends the blog for further reading on Bitcoin.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts about Bitcoin and other things.
Most-linked posts?
- Bitcoin Is Time8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-02-11
- Der Crypto and Fiat Bros2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-20
- Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
What Hacker News says?
> And in any case, there are other ways to build a global system for transferring money that is many orders of magnitude more efficient, so there is still no reason for society to support the cost of bitcoin, because it’s a terrible alternative. Good. Build one. That's a huge arbitrage opportunity. The market will decide. Meanwhile we'll continue building systems on top of Bitcoin[2]. Game on. See you in 50 years. >…
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index”Submitted Bitcoin Is Time as a story · 444 points
HN discussionProof of Work is the source of truth [0]. That is why Proof of Stake cannot work. You are describing one of the biggest of the problems with PoS perfectly. [0] https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “Web3 is centralized and inefficient”Submitted Freedom and Privacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin as a story · 69 points
HN discussionA cryptographically signed picture may tell you its from a certain artists, but it cannot enforce uniqueness. There are only two options - tokens, and ledgers. Despite the name, there is no such thing as a digital token, because digital objects cannot move, they only copy. So you need a ledger, so basically something like a blockchain, to keep track of copies. https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites”Submitted Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThere was an article linked on HN talking about exactly this. https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet”Submitted Inalienable Property Rights: The Law, Language, Money, and Morality of Bitcoin as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “Manyverse – A social network off the grid”Submitted Bitcoin Is the Rediscovery of Money as a story · 4 points
HN discussionglad you asked. only Bitcoin is really decentralized. i recommend this blog for further education: https://dergigi.com/
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on “It amazes me how many people are blissfully unaware of the rampant tether fraud”Submitted Speaking Freely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs I said, it's just all so tiresome. > People are never allowed to criticize it without the same, repeated feedback “If that’s what you think blockchain is, then you don’t understand it.” That's because the criticisms are always the same talking points, all of which have been addressed multiple times ad nauseam. If Bitcoin advocates appear dismissive or opaque it may be that they're exhausted of debunking the same…
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future”Submitted Der Crypto and Fiat Bros as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRandom things I found interesting: https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/ https://blockstream.com/eltoo.pdf
Comment linking /2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
on “The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula”Submitted A Vision for a Value-Enabled Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of the Sovereign Individual as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Crypto and Fiat Bros as a story · 1 points
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