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As far as I can tell Gawker / Adrian Chen broke the news, that's the only press coverage I can find so far. It's a bog standard Chen/Gawker production, but I gu

As far as I can tell Gawker / Adrian Chen broke the news, that's the only press coverage I can find so far. It's a bog standard Chen/Gawker production, but I guess there isn't much to say yet anyway. The reddit thread on the subject isn't much better, get a load of this gem. Hacker News (discussion forum for Y-Combinator which funded CoinLab) is zealously deleting any threads started to discuss this topic. They regularly surpress discussion of topics that might make them, or the companies they've funded, look bad. So, I think it's probably legit. The $75 million, on the other hand (if that's what you meant) is of course fine-cut bullshit. Quoth a redditor who doesn't know that all gawker links are rightly and properly killed on sight.

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xkcdfanboy 14y ago
If you haven't seen censorship on HN, you haven't looked hard enough. I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship).
- sillysaurus 14y ago
  I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship). Meta threads aren't allowed, so it shouldn't be surprising that those are deleted. Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.
  - xkcdfanboy 14y ago
    So much for a socratic free Internet. Someone should make a hacker news without censorship
    - eatitraw 14y ago
      There is actually lamernews: http://lamernews.com/ http://lamernews.com/ . I have only vague memories of why this website appeared, but as far as I remember it has something to do with moderation.
barmstrong 14y ago
Ycombinator didn't fund Coinlab. You are probably thinking of Coinbase, which is unrelated to this story.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
  You are correct, but I was quoting another poster. Thanks for pointing it out. It is easy to get confused.
niggler 14y ago
I'd recommend you review what happened last time a mod edited a post involving CoinBase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387

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xkcdfanboy 14y ago

If you haven't seen censorship on HN, you haven't looked hard enough. I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship).

sillysaurus 14y ago
I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship). Meta threads aren't allowed, so it shouldn't be surprising that those are deleted. Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.
- xkcdfanboy 14y ago
  So much for a socratic free Internet. Someone should make a hacker news without censorship
  - eatitraw 14y ago
    There is actually lamernews: http://lamernews.com/ http://lamernews.com/ . I have only vague memories of why this website appeared, but as far as I remember it has something to do with moderation.

barmstrong 14y ago

Ycombinator didn't fund Coinlab. You are probably thinking of Coinbase, which is unrelated to this story.

fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
You are correct, but I was quoting another poster. Thanks for pointing it out. It is easy to get confused.

niggler 14y ago

I'd recommend you review what happened last time a mod edited a post involving CoinBase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387