No; it was renamed to the proper title of the story 'The Face Behind Bitcoin' - still there towards the top with over 400 comments. (Postition 11 right now)
It was, but a mod changed it to the subtitle. That's a standard practice when an article's title is baity and its subtitle less so. Unfortunately this time the subtitle was misleading.
The real problem though is that the article itself is pretty fluffy, below the author's usual standard. I don't think there's much to gratify intellectual curiosity here, or news that there's a cryptocurrency craze. All this has been discussed on HN well past the point where we just recycle.
admins: imo this post should not be penalized because it includes bitcoin in the title. This is a pretty huge milestone and deserves some time on the front page.
It's both Europe and eastern US timezones are at work so it's relatively peak hours, and its a story involving a (potentially) huge crypto scandal. It doesn't surprise me that it's gained a bunch of attention.
Now I don't think the story itself is real, but I don't think it's made it to the frontpage by gaming HN with bots or something
Also, this post was originally titled "CoinDL enables Bitcoin purchases in seconds (link to eBook example)" so your post was more on-topic than it seemed. Today I learned, titles can be renamed by somebody else on Hacker News.
The submitted title was "Australia to make bitcoin payments above $10k illegal", but a moderator changed it to the article title, in accordance with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I think the mods are on holiday.
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