The goal is to help spread usage of the YC startup and indirectly bitcoin.
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
No, it's not sad it's correct. you are cheating and it's a scammish thing to so.
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.