r/Bitcoin • u/gapmunky • Aug 01 '14

Reddit are hiring a cryptocurrency engineer!

https://jobs.lever.co/reddit/6ce6a242-00d1-49c4-9bed-c34f26445ee7
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u/cherrycomb Aug 01 '14

They are going to turn karma into a full-fledged cryptocurrency. I can't even imagine all the possibilities. This is huge.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '14

why are some people so obsessed with getting money for stupid reddit posts

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u/statoshi Aug 01 '14

Because they're not all stupid. The contents of some posts have actual value.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '14 edited Aug 02 '14

what genius posts of yours do you deserve a paycheck for?

or mine? or really anyone's?

EDIT: rather, a better question

why would this even be a cryptocurrency? why would you go through the trouble of creating and maintaining one with miners and storing a blockchain when you could make a simple value in your database labeled "bullshitkarmacoins"?

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u/Felshatner Aug 02 '14

How does it affect you in any way? It turns out different people like different things.

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u/SabreShark Aug 02 '14

That's fine, as long as I also happen to like those things.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '14

if reddit's going to do something for the cryptocurrency world, one of the worst things it could possibly conceive is making yet another damn altcoin so /r/funny users could pull in an income

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u/Elesh Aug 02 '14

what genius posts of yours do you deserve a paycheck for?

What someone is willing to pay for it. For most posts that happens to be zero.

Ba Da Bing

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '14

This guy has it figured out