> 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.

Both 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

I think it is. Outrage sells. Crypto outrage sells even faster on HN.