Dogecoin rallied by more than 85%, suggesting Wall Street Bet’s crypto wing may have decided that they weren’t done with DOGE yet. After gaining the spotlight due to a 980% pump on Jan. 28, Dogecoin (DOGE) briefly entered the top 10 ranking by market capitalization for the first time since 2015. Once the massive pump…
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More than 200,000 Redditors joined the page last week. One of the most well-known online Bitcoin communities passed two million subscribers in a surge of activity on Friday, purportedly due to the media attention over the r/Wallstreetbets subreddit. According to the Metrics For Reddit analytics website, the subreddit r/Bitcoin has 2,184,941 subscribers at the time…
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The new coin suddenly appeared at the top of CoinMarketCap’s rankings, but is r/Wallstreetbets really coming to crypto? The influence of Reddit’s r/Wallstreetbets subreddit has apparently spread to the cryptocurrency space, after a new coin appeared at the top of CoinMarketCap’s rankings on Friday. Dubbed WallStreetBets (WSB), the new coin apparently gained in excess of…
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Alexis Ohanian is the latest social media and tech personality to update his Twitter bio to read “#Bitcoin.” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in updating their Twitter bios to “#Bitcoin.” Ohanian’s bio update seemed to be in response to a tweet by tech entrepreneur and…
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Bitcoin HODLers are divided on whether now was the best time to sell. But mom and dad… Reddit’s r/Bitcoin community continues to pull on our heartstrings. On Thursday, a user by the name of “u/Bigtony96” claimed to have sold their entire Bitcoin (BTC) stash to pay off their parents’ mortgage. The Redditor supposedly unloaded a…
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This Reddit user has found a unique way to make ends meet during the pandemic. A Reddit user by the name of “satoshinakamoto7” claims to have used their free MOON tokens to pay this month’s rent, offering another sign that cryptocurrencies are beginning to add real value to people’s lives. In a post that appeared…
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This is the story of a Redditor’s roundabout way of making a hefty Bitcoin profit. A Reddit user by the name of “u/Cryptorich13” has capitalized on the social media platform’s crypto reward system by converting his stash of free coins into Bitcoin (BTC). In a Sunday post, u/Cryptorich13 explained how he converted his 80,000 Moon…
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As antitrust enforcement hits Facebook and Google, the Federal Trade Commission is digging into misuse of consumer data. The United States Federal Trade Commission is making the giants of social media account for their user data practices. On December 11, the FTC published orders for special reports from unnamed social media companies. The commission’s stated…
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Reddit users have discovered they can farm memes for ERC-20 tokens and earn returns comparable to minimum wages in Sub-Saharan Africa A new form of crypto-agriculture appears to be taking shape, with Reddit’s “community points” tokens facilitating the emergence of spam-farming. Reddit’s community points are given to users based on their activity within a given…
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Discussions.app and Telos will collaborate on tools to record Twitter and other social media accounts and contacts to the blockchain enabling migration between platforms. Reddit-inspired social aggregation platform Discussions.app announced its expansion to the Telos network on Sept. 3. The first project to come out of the new collaboration will be a decentralized identity system,…
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