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80 upvotes in <40 minutes for a text post with no substance? Doesnt seem organic.
by dylkil 4y ago
80 upvotes in <40 minutes for a text post with no substance? Doesnt seem organic.
- sph 4y agoI think it is. Outrage sells. Crypto outrage sells even faster on HN.
- smcl 4y agoBoth European and Eastern US timezones are at work so it's approaching peak time on HN, and this is 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
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- rvz 4y ago> Doesnt seem organic. It really doesn't matter anymore at this point. Well anything associated with being anti-crypto will get to the top of HN for sure, so it is really unsurprising. Any legitimate use of it doesn't fit the narrative enough to be worthy of attention. Outrage, conspiracies, and schadenfreude of a particular narrative or entity drives in the clicks, Ad money and manipulation here and in the wider media in general. So there you go. Anyway, I hope this person leaks the 100GB files to crash the crypto market, wipe out the scammers and criminals exposed in there to accelerate regulations. We'll see what happens.
- dylkil 4y ago>I hope this person leaks the 100GB files to crash the crypto market If a coin with a $40b mcap going to zero in a few hours doesnt crash the crypto market I highly doubt a telegram chat dump will