[coderrr]

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]

No, it's not sad it's correct. you are cheating and it's a scammish thing to so.

[coderrr]

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.