Will Bitcoin-Friendly Voat.co Replace Reddit?
The “Front page of the internet” had a rude awakening on the morning of July 2 after finding out that Reddits director of talent, Victoria Taylor (u/chooter), was fired abruptly, causing the subreddit /r/iAmA to be down. No one, except for a few select Reddit administrators knows the reason for Victoria being fired. The drama has caused an uprising in many of the website’s most popular default subreddits, such has /r/movies, /r/history, /r/gaming and /r/AskReddit, where moderators chose to convert their respective communities into private subreddits as an act of condemnation. Amusingly....
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Voat™, a media aggregator like Reddit, wants to be the place on the Internet where you can "have your say™". But that might not be possible if PayPal has its way. PayPal informed Voat administrators that their account had been "limited," and their funds frozen. The site, entirely funded by user donation, is distressed. The site creator Atif Colo posted in a stickied thread on the forum's homepage: The reason given was 'Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for certain sexually oriented materials or services or for items that could be considered....
New information has come to light regarding the latest bitcoin spam attack which has exposed the weakness of the bitcoin network. The attack group is now targeting the non-profit, journalistic organization WikiLeaks and the Reddit clone Voat, according to a Motherboard report. Dust or thousands of tiny bitcoin transactions are now hitting WikiLeaks and Voat. However, there is no news regarding why the two are being targeted. Earlier this week, the bitcoin network witnessed an onslaught of thousands of tiny bitcoin transactions aimed at clogging the network and bringing it down. The....
On Monday, 11th January, a Reddit user @itstimebitcoin, posted an article entitled “The ugly truth: Bitcoin is doomed and needs to be replaced”. The article that talked about “how bitcoin is doomed and Ethereum will replace it” soon became very controversial and was later removed on Wednesday, 15th January. (A cached copy of the article can be accessed here). Many Reddit users complained that they received personal spam messages from multiple newly created Reddit accounts that read “Hello, I saw your post in the bitcoin reddit, what is your opinion on Reddit post (link).” “I wouldn't think....
Reddit is not exactly known as a safe haven for constructive posts, friendly comments or honest moderators. In fact, this “front page of the Internet” has become rather toxic in some cases, as readers can turn on each other in a heartbeat. However, there is also a great amount of valuable content to be found on this platform, which is part of why Reddit....
Earlier today, Reddit posted to its blog and announced the "Reddit notes," the name of the long-awaited Reddit cryptocurrency. Reddit recently closed a $50 million USD funding round led by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, and Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital. Soon thereafter, Reddit announced their plans to "share" 10% of the equity raised with the loyal users of Reddit, without whom the funds could not have been raised. To help with their new cryptocurrency, Reddit posted a job ad for a "cryptocurrency engineer" and quickly hired BitPay developer Ryan Charles back in....