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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards

www.businessinsider.com Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards

Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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how much is anyone's betting that it will involve crypto in some way? i raise you a very fine 6mm dia 1m long aluminum tube
- Honestly probably an nft. Pay extra for your own unique award to give out! 🤮
  
  Reddit already has NFT avatars. Adding them for awards would make sense with that recent story about letting users make money from their awards. Bleh.
  
  imo it'll turn out to be more like another karma counter, especially after crypto they will be paid in craters (because no way it'll involve real money)
  
  i want a 3 cent (eur) nft
- It's the obvious answer, but I wonder if it would implode in their face in some interesting ways.
  Reddit has been the epicenter of a lot of crypto communities over the years. They've been there for plenty of projects to rise and fall, and most importantly, the wholesale evolution of the market. The remaining crypto market is not a place where you can hope to launch a new, lasting project on hope, enthusiasm, or promises of future utility. For anything outside a few very narrow cases (actual CBDC or related projects), the announcement of a new project is little more than starting the count-down to the inevitable rug-pull, technical collapse, or financial meltdown. All this is documented in huge detail across their communities.
  Launching a new crypto-based product in 2023+ would be like Airbus saying "we're going all in on propeller triplanes." It's sketchy, and they have full knowledge that it's sketchy. I sort of wonder what promises and stories they've tossed towards their existing investors, who I imagine are frantically Googling the phrase "breach of fiduciary duty" already.
  
  announcement of a new project is little more than starting the count-down to the inevitable rug-pull, technical collapse, or financial meltdown
  arguably it always has been https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-ponzi.html#sum
  monetization of upvotes, lack of bot control, yeah i see no way this can go sideways
  CBDCs were always a vaporware, and crypto in general is driven by hype only
  
  I suspect we'll see products that end up getting branded CBDC (e-yuan, e-rupee, e-dollar), but it may look nothing like blockchain hype projects.
  There are plenty of real world problems that a natively digital transaction system can mitigate. The obvious use case is "I'm in Los Angeles, how can I pay someone in Edinburgh three pounds without spending days for settlement, worrying about inter-bank communication, or dealing with private firms that have turned it into a rent-seeking space that adds huge fees". Note this can be done without some elaborate blockchain system. In fact, a centralized service operated by the state has the right incentive alignment: they are more beholden to the social and political goal of "efficient commerce helps economic growth" rather than the private-enterprise mindset of "if I can get people to consume the tokens I already own, I can be a kazillionaire."
  
  every time i hear criticism like this i have to notice that these problems exist mostly within heavily outdated american banking system. in my country i can send bank transfer to anyone within country for free and it will always clear within 24h, but less than ~3h if sent during normal working hours. transfers within bank are instant; when i pay my internet bill, for example, such instant transfer goes to payment processor (with little overhead ~0.3$). within EU, there are SEPA transfers
  then, outside of banks in usual sense of this word, there is range of solutions from revolut to m-pesa
- I raise you this inanimate carbon rod.
  
  i gamble only in the best metal, aluminum

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