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Here's my piece of insight: I find paying for comments pathetic, distasteful and disrespectful to HN.

• coderrr 14y ago
  The goal is to help spread usage of the YC startup and indirectly bitcoin.
  • coderrr 14y ago
    We removed the end of our post about paying the first 5 people 0.5 BTC through coinbase since it seems that's probably what got this post killed from the front page. Kinda sad since the intention was clearly to help promote coinbase.com
    • duiker101 14y ago
      No, it's not sad it's correct. you are cheating and it's a scammish thing to so.
      • coderrr 14y ago
        Cheating on getting comments? I really didn't care if we had comments or not, I thought it was a good enough post on its own. I thought giving the first 5 people a prize through a YC company wouldn't be seen as scamming. I could see the argument that if everyone did that HN would be shit. But I don't really see HN having many opportunities for people to do that.