[tigershark]

If you didn’t notice a lot of people on HN are heavily evangelising bitcoin. Probably as you say they have made millions on the shoulders of other people. Flagging anything that may deflate just a bit the bubble is part of their modus operandi.

[ttoinou]

   on the shoulders of other people

... that have contracted with the systems voluntarily

[nosuchthing]

...under false marketing pretense & propaganda