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Paul Graham Indirectly Endorses Bitcoin
- coderrr 14y agoThis is being reposted. The last post got killed from the front page due to a paragraph which was giving prizes through coinbase.com to first 5 insightful comments. That's now been removed as it was seen as scammy/cheating and of course that was not the purpose of it.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoFlagged. I don't really think it's appropriate to say that Paul Graham "endorses" bitcoin just because his company has funded a startup that's going to try to work in that space. That's putting words in the man's mouth. Maybe he only thinks it has a 10% chance of working, but it'll be big if it does. Maybe his team is convinced that this will work, but he is not. Saying someone endorses something is making a pretty big claim about their thoughts on an issue. That claim does not have sufficient evidence behind it in this case.
- rasengan 14y agoInterestingly, Paul Graham's name is in the screenshot on the frontpage of the YC endorsed website (coinbase.com)
- jamesaguilar 14y agoProbably a fake account made under his name on their test system. But perhaps not. It certainly doesn't count in my mind as evidence that PG endorses Bitcoin.
- coderrr 14y agoadded indirectly in the title that said: endorse 1) to approve, support, or sustain it might not be exact, but I don't think it's that far off