Reddit No Longer Accepts Bitcoin Payments

[kreslik.news]

Reddit, a popular discussion and link-sharing website, has discontinued the Bitcoin payment option and banned a forum dedicated to anonymous cryptocurrency trading, according to a report in Bitcoin.com.

This is significant because there is a large cryptocurrency community on the messaging platform, and conversations held there can have a real effect on market movements.

Reddit was founded in 2005, and as of June 2015 had 36 million accounts. Membership is free but users can support the platform by purchasing Reddit Gold, a membership programme which gives the users additional features on the website such as a breakdown of their upvotes (called ‘karma’), ... (read more)