This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492731<p>It was the second or third article on the frontpage when I commented on it an hour back, but now it is gone: from the front page, the first couple of pages, and from the "newest" pages.<p>I can see the article by clicking on the link, but otherwise it is as if it doesn't exist anymore. It has 63 points and is 2 hours old, so it "should" be somewhere on the frontpage ... . What happened?
Hi, Stephan from the Ethereum project here.<p>I must say that seeing that link taken down was surprising, since Ethereum is at its core a programming paradigm for decentralized applications + a distribution mechanism.<p>In fact, the only 'thing' Ethereum borrows from bitcoin/altcoins is the implementation of decentralized consensus at scale, which we believe is applicable not just to currencies, but also the law, entrepreneurship, governance and many other fields.<p>If people here would like to help us improving our messaging, feel free to post here!! We're really appreciative for any advice, straight from the horse's mouth :)
It has been posted several times in the last year, so I buried it as a dupe. In such cases we don't kill the item, so discussion can continue.<p>Normally, we'd kill this post, though, because you're supposed to ask questions like this by emailing us rather than posting it on HN itself. Since the sudden appearance of a new moderator in the threads is a novelty, we'll leave this one open for now.
It's currently at position 119.<p>My guess is it got flagged enough to drop.<p>It's annoying that an interesting new tech is flagged down off the front page, but HN has an anti-cryptocurrency contingent.<p>Doesn't speak well for this community that this happens.
Fascinating stuff, I'm glad I saw your post, because I had missed that.<p>Probably it just scrolled off the top few pages... things move pretty quickly on HN sometimes.