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Welcome to @garrytan, CEO of Y Combinator! 

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

why does YC and HN hate crypto? And please don‘t respond with „we love crypto“ or whatever. HN mod capacity is downstream of YC. Users and operators dislike it

Founder /kiwi-news, a decentralized Hacker News

HN is really a totally organic community. 

YC is interesting because in full transparency the capital structure for new crypto startups is pretty competitive because there is just so much money that is also not valuation sensitive. Also the outliers are bigger and there are fewer of them.

I think the nocoiners might just be upset and have sour grapes. The knock on crypto is that it is so much money that distorts the markets. Even your most stalwart crypto supporters would probably admit that is true.

is “nocoiner” cryptonese for “normie”? 

I hope so.

Yeah but as a formerly active HN user I have often been moderated for „snarkily“ commenting under tech news, yet ALL comments under any HN crypto related links are snark. I‘ve told dang this and nothing has improved. That‘s why I said YC is responsible