Hacker News with Generative AI: Speculation

Bitcoin Without a Fight (loeber.substack.com)
Dial the clock back by thirteen years. It’s the spring of 2012. Bitcoin is trading at five dollars a coin. You ask me “what would the world look like at $100,000 a coin?” When Bitcoin is 20,000 times more valuable? It’s unimaginable. Maybe the financial systems of some small countries have failed, and been taken over completely by Bitcoin. Surely it has become a popular currency.
Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again (arstechnica.com)
New leaks and cryptic clues point to active development the long-awaited sequel.
Saving Nanocap Speculators from Themselves (nyuu.page)
I spent the summer of the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market fascinated by a hive of foolishness and deception: /r/cryptomoonshots (and, to a lesser extent, its analogues on discord and telegram). People’d post a token address (typically Binance Smart Chain (“BSC”), occasionally Ethereum (“Eth”)) along with a pitch or maybe a website and an inducement: “buy right now!”. The (implicit) conceit was “you, the reader, may have ‘missed bitcoin’, and ‘missed dogecoin’, but you can still ‘100x’… by buying my token!”.
Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change? (ycombinator.com)