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.<p>Bitcoin will take some time to evolve. Don't miss the forest for the trees; don't miss the trees for the bark.
I find it amusing—and just a little ironic—that the only truly "HN-material" Bitcoin article I've seen (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862727" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862727</a>) was posted just today.<p>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 <i>the politics of</i> a technology," this one should do.<p>Now we just have to manage a purely-technical discussion of Tor...
Suggest HN: make a separate community just for javascript & web crapps.<p>And for articles about big tech corps (Google, MS, Apple, etc.) doing this and that, repeated in all mainstream tech media.<p>Same for politics.
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.
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 <a href="http://thecurrency.io/" rel="nofollow">http://thecurrency.io/</a> or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.<p>I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.
There's a large community over at <a href="http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin</a>. 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.
Yay! Subhns! I suggest news.ycombinator.com/hn/bitcoin<p>But yes. I agree. The amount of Bitcoin related posts is too damn high.<p>Edit: Link.
God forbid anybody could be interested in other things than you are.<p>Btw your submission singlehandedly increased the amount of Bitcoin articles on the HN front page by 33%.