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
Not really. On other side news like 'my AWS account racked 40000$ while I was asleep (because of the crypto-miners)' make to the front page way to often.
This seems to be the case with most of the articles about Bitcoin. I suspect there are a number of large holders and exchanges paying PR firms to get stories like this published/upvoted/etc and keep the train going.
People are posting related info they've found. Seems entirely valid to me (especially given that the media botches a lot of stories, like the last two revelations of "the real Satoshi").
If you mean the story about the real Satoshi Nakamoto's comment on the situation, then it was already posted, got lots of upvotes, and that's probably why your post are being killed
Right, I saw that was claimed. I didn't check timezones, etc but assume that is correct. Still, the interesting point remains that any tweet can be turned into a bitcoin-related topic.
Don’t worry the link will be reported and erased from the front page really quickly anyway.
It’s the same story for every critical thread about Altcoins. But at least this time we kinda have a confirmation that this is some kind of manipulation because the linked article have absolutely no reasons to be reported. It’s an original work with great tech insights.
Anyone else noticing this story getting furiously downmodded? 250 points within two hours and buried under older, lesser stories. The bitcoin butthurt is strong here on Hacker News.
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
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