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Suggest HN: make a separate community just for Bitcoin articles

25 points by bitops ↗ HN
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.

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tylerdurd3n
Yes, I am sick of Bitcoin posts, please get away!
kanishkkunal
Agreed!
kanishkkunal
Wow, someone down voted me and took away that 1 karma I had, just because I agreed with this topic.
sunseb
Agreed ! And the best way to earn bitcoins in the future : make your startup successful !
derefr
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
Flagging them is probably plenty effective.
mithras
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
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
Suggest HN: make a separate community just for:

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

naiyt
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
/r/bitcoinmarkets is better
naiyt
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.)
jaredsohn
Also check /r/BitcoinSerious. The sidebar of each subreddit should describe what makes it different from /r/bitcoin.
VMG
Is it? The chart-voodoo makes me cringe
dlsym
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
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
I'm sick of posts suggesting to resolve the Bitcoin posts issue more than of the posts itself.
pmcpinto
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.