Because there is nothing to play with or try out, it may not be obviously consistent with the 'show hn' guidelines. My understanding is that "show hn" is not really for blog post type content...with blog posts announcing a piece of software being a corner case.
None of which is to suggest that the article isn't interesting intellectually interesting. Only that intellectually interesting is the criteria for good 'regular' stories.
I think the logical split I've made between those two areas is a good one since people tend to be in one of two camps in terms of how comfortable they are with all this. Hopefully I can do justice to the second part.
Absolutely agree with this. It's a shame that for the moment such a revolutionary technology is getting so tied up with _super_ shady stuff. For every 10 awful Ponzi ICOs there's a real gem of someone using new tech to really try and push boundaries.
I wouldn't worry about it. This phenomenon is true, maybe to a lower degree of mania, for technologies past (trains, exploration, gold rushes, every tech bubble) and present (crispr, biologics)
