Don't forget that people upvote them. There are many people who find them interesting and don't think that they're spam, including me.

A friend of mine told me "dude, the price is falling". So where do I go to check what's up? HN, of course!

for what its worth, i lost my flagging privileges doing the same thing in the bitcoin bubble two years ago

I think part of the issue is that it's kind of a slow news period right now. There are not a whole lot of really exciting other stories hitting HN's front page so far in April.

That'd be a great opportunity to read and comment on some of the better submitted articles. Unfortunately it's been seen as an opportunity to submit many articles. Nearly 40 articles with Bitcoin in the title have been submitted in the past 24 hours.

I understand a few Bitcoin posts. But there are a lot at the moment.