Social Sharing Site Reddit Seeks 'Cryptocurrency Engineer'
Here's a potentially interesting bit of news for cryptocurrency enthusiasts that may be looking for a job. Social sharing website Reddit.com (which has a huge bitcoin community at r/Bitcoin) is apparently hiring handful of 'Cryptocurrency Engineers' out of their San Francisco office. The job listing is posted over at Lever, which you can view by following this link. Here's what they need, according to the listing: reddit is looking for a couple engineers with extremely strong discrete mathematics or computer science backgrounds to explore new technology applications and infrastructure....
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Ryan X Charles has been let go from his post as cryptocurrency engineer on social platform Reddit. The developer, who only this week demonstrated his proof of concept forpeer-to-peer bitcoin payments on the site, announced the news in a Reddit post, saying: 'I have complete confidence in the new leadership, but cryptocurrency is no longer in their plans.' He added that he was 'fairly confident cryptocurrency will return to Reddit in the coming years', but that it would "have to wait a while for things to calm down" - a reference to the company's current situation after the sudden departure....
Given Reddit's status as perhaps the most prominent social network for bitcoin discussion, it is unsurprising that the wider community took notice when former BitPay developer Ryan X Charles was brought on board as the site's first 'cryptocurrency engineer' this September. Interest was further piqued with the announcement that, fresh off $50m in new funding, Reddit would go beyond simply embracing bitcoin as a currency, seeking instead to give 10% of the round to users through a cryptocurrency backed by its own shares. Since then details about the project have been scarce. However, Charles....
On Friday, American social news aggregation and discussion website, Reddit published a job listing seeking a senior backend engineer for a non-fungible token (NFT) platform. As part of Reddit’s development team, the new hire would help “design, build and ship backend services for millions of users to create, buy, sell and use NFT-backed digital goods.”
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Reddit seems to be in the midst of creating a non-fungible token (NFT) feature on its platform and from a recent job....
Reddit is the 9th most visited site in the US and ranks 36th for the entire world. Incorporating Bitcoin into Reddit would expose millions of people to the nascent technology. In the past week, Reddit Crypto Engineer Ryan Charles debuted on the Reddit Blog. The blog announced plans to integrate Reddit with Bitcoin's blockchain technology simultaneously. Recently, Reddit's CEO, Yishan Wong, resigned. Alex Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, returned as executive chairman. With that return, Reddit announced the consideration of creating its own cryptocurrency. Shares would be given to the community,....