The daily bitcoin astroturfing on HN is getting tiresome. When there are such strong and immediate economic incentives for upvoting a story(I bet every bitcoin story on HN causes a small increase in the exchange rate), you're bound to run into trouble.
"small increase" - the exchange rate against the dollar has risen from under a dollar when I first looked to 6ish - it's almost tempting to trade in my single bitcoin for cash (the reality of the market being that I have nothing else to spend it on...)
No offense intended here. I think most HN-ers know what Bitcoin is at this point. I find Bitcoin fascinating, but where is the analysis, insight or interesting narrative here?