Any author who is going to write something about bitcoin on a popular platform inevitably encounters the phenomenon of crypto-hatering. Some people downvote articles without reading them, leave comments from the series “you are all suckers, haha,” and all this flow of negativity seems extremely irrational. However, behind any, at first glance, irrational behavior, there are some objective and subjective reasons. In this text, I will try to classify these reasons in relation to the IT community. And no, I'm not trying to convince anyone.
Lost Profit Syndrome 1: I could have been mining bitcoin back in 2009!
“I’m an IT specialist, I read about bitcoin when it first appeared, so if I had mined it then, I would now have billions!” It's a shame, yes.
Here we need to go back ten years. Sometimes it seems that the Internet has been with us for ages, and certainly was everywhere in 2009. The nuance, however, is that it was then that he began to actively become a part of the life of the "broad masses of the people", which inevitably led to the emergence of a huge amount of all sorts of terrible nonsense and fraud. Remember, for example, "digital drugs"? The peak of their popularity in Russia coincided with the advent of bitcoin.
I myself could be in this group of "haters". In 2009, I was writing articles for a computer magazine, and I was offered a choice of topic: bitcoin or “digital drugs”. After a little digging into both, I chose "drugs" because there was plenty of fun to be had. I-Dozer with "doses" of $ 200, the Monroe Institute, well, that's all; much funnier than some Satoshi Nakamoto with his mining. Another author wrote about crypto; being a professional, he, of course, experienced the topic for himself, mined a few bitcoins. And, of course, immediately after the publication, he took everything from the disk along with the password from the wallet. Meanwhile, while I was writing about “drugs” and exercising wit, the topic was definitely blown away, and my text was archived. I wonder which one of us is more offended now? ..
Most sane IT people looked at all these miracles extremely soberly and put “digital money” on a par with “digital drugs”. With the exception that the latter were presented as a harmless withdrawal of money from suckers, and the former as a potential malware, a kind of MMM with an admixture of either phishing or a botnet. Put on your computer some kind of muddy program that takes up the processor and constantly sends something somewhere? Made up by some anonymous dude that no one has seen? And they promise me some mythical “money” out of thin air for this? No, thank you, if I have nowhere to put the processor and the channel, I'd better connect : at least I will bring benefit to mankind.
Well, now - "oh, if I knew ..." Well, in general, no. As practice shows, the one who, out of idle curiosity, did mine some bitcoins at the very beginning, by the time of the course of $20, had successfully forgotten the password from the wallet. And the traders who “buy the cue ball at another $000”, being professionals, immediately sold it at $30 and fixed the profit. And here lies another reason for the hate: people who raised millions on bitcoin due to the “strategy” , usually, . But at the same time, yes, they got it right, a bag of money fell on them. But they are few, as it should be; lost much more. They just don't make legends.
Lost Profits 2: If only I had bought bitcoin a year and a half ago...
This occasion is the least common in the IT environment, but it must be mentioned for the sake of completeness.
Consciously, billions on cryptocurrency bubbles were earned not by random people, but by professional traders and investors. If there was no bitcoin, they would have made money on something else (albeit not on such a scale). Slightly less stubborn amateurs, but they invested a lot of time in understanding what was happening and developing a strategy. And those who simply “heard something” - for the most part went bankrupt (having replenished the army of haters). Just because by 2017 the period of mining out of thin air has ended, the market has formed, and in order for someone to gain something in the market, someone has to lose. Among novice traders, 90% lose money, it's the same here. The chance to earn billions on bitcoin even in the 17th, without learning, understanding and understanding how everything works - about how to win them in the lottery. Do your job, where you are a professional - and everything will be fine with you. And if you have a talent for trading, then you can perfectly earn it even now, trading at least bitcoin, at least stocks, at least options for barrels of oil.
Professional 1: Some mediocrity is cutting money
Let's move on to the most interesting and, perhaps, the most important.
Strictly speaking, both blockchain technology and all these smart contracts are a fierce, nightmarish kindergarten in a programming hell.
Well, really?
What is this "technology" of a distributed base, which requires electricity sufficient to meet the needs of a small European country?
What are these "smart" contracts written in a language that makes the Arduino IDE look like a nuclear reactor control system? Well, in fact, the smart contract was specifically designed so that any John could write it, and any Mary could read it. This is such BASIC from cryptocurrencies.
Meanwhile, a year ago, writers of smart contracts were offered some kind of enchanting money.
Let's imagine a situation. We have a cool development team lead. Really experienced programmer, follows all new technologies, spends a lot of time on professional growth, has a good job with a good salary. He knows that he can make three times as much on smart contracts, but he also understands that with these smart contracts his professional level will rapidly collapse, and there will be no motivation for further improvement. Plus, he is categorically not interested in kindergarten nonsense, but he seems to have enough money.
And he has a junior. So far, stupid, but seemingly promising, our team leader has been spending time on him for six months now, teaching him the mind. And then the junior goes to the developers of smart contracts. With the very same salary, it is three times higher than that of the team lead! Well, in fact, what is it?!
It's a shame. I hate!
Professional 2: Dashed Hope
Let's go back to our junior. For six months, nine months, maybe even a whole year, he lived in clover, just like in pictures from photobanks. Sitting on the beach, drinking daiquiri, coding something on a trendy iMac Pro. Life is good! A jeep for the children, a puppet castle for the wife… well, or something like that.
And then his wonderful office, which raised several million on ICO, suddenly realizes that nothing is working out for her. Well, to hell with it, the office decides, let's close the shop until the money runs out.
And our junior directly from the beach finds himself in the labor market. Where no one needs him now - he cannot even claim the salary that was before smart contracts. It is necessary to learn everything from scratch, being content with completely “ridiculous” money. And the earnings have already been spent - on the beach, on a jeep, on a doll castle, and the wife demands a new fur coat.
It's a shame!
And who is to blame? Of course, cryptocurrencies, who else!
Crypto anarchy is canceled
Despite the fact that cryptocurrencies have long been used extensively on the Darknet for trading in all sorts of bad things, neither Yarovaya, nor Roskomnadzor, nor their foreign colleagues for some reason are eager to ban everything at the roots. It would seem, enter an article in the Criminal Code, and that's it, no exchangers in Moscow City and no cups of coffee for "gas". Instead, at the GXNUMX meeting on the creation of a working commission on cryptocurrencies, Poland is starting transactions with them are taxed, and JPMorgan, whose head is known for his pessimism towards bitcoin, own coin.
The casket opens simply: while cypherpunks see in cryptocurrencies a beautiful world of the future with anarchy, equality and fraternity, states see them as total controllable monetary units, whose history can be accurately traced down to the “printing press”. And in the blockchain - the possibility of total surveillance of any movements of the subordinate population. And even though they still do not really understand how to apply all this in their sinister totalitarian plans, be sure that sooner or later a solution will be found, and few will seem to anyone.
So far, cases of reforging cypherpunks into crypto-haters , but there is no doubt that with the dispelling of the pink fog, the latter will become more and more, and the bright image of the freedom singer Satoshi Nakamoto will darken to Dr. Evil. Which he, quite possibly, was from the very beginning.
But that's another story, but before it's too late some coins for yourself.
Source: habr.com