It's also largely what the DirectGov website in Britain does. They have an entire team working on maintaining the pipeline. I haven't worked for one of their competitors, though.
Indeed. This is even less well-researched than that Nick Szabo is (probably) Satoshi Nakamoto hit piece that was #1 on Hacker News in December 2013.
You would think that was the absolute low point from which things could only get better for Hacker News. But no, it's December 2019 (an intervening period as long as World War 2) and there's even more cretins posting crap on Hacker News now.