This is Mike Hearn. https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

dang · on Jan 15, 2016

We've banned this account for conducting a personal attack on HN. That is an abuse of this site and violates our most important value, civility.

(This has nothing to with any opinion on Bitcoin.)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905126 and marked it off-topic.

tptacek · on Jan 15, 2016

This a pretty rude comment. My comment didn't make an argument either way; it just added some context to the thread. You're arguing so aggressively that you've hijacked it in order to slam him.

Could you maybe delete that comment and make it a top-level comment instead? Then I'll delete this one, and the thread will be cleaner.

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dragontamer · on Jan 15, 2016

When the context and information you posted is so obviously a one-sided ad-hominem list of information (that includes the argument of "OMFG, he might have connections to some state intelligence agency"), its quite rude IMO.