When traders get enough money for life from their Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), or any crypto trading plays, what comes next? Crypto-savvy Reddit users shared their best ideas in a lively subreddit. A user who goes by the tag u/LifeReboot shared how a stroke of luck led to less satisfaction than expected. Because of this, LifeReboot asked the crypto community about their thoughts on what to do next after making enough profit for the rest of their lives. In a reply, user Adamant27 sent some congratulations and compared life to video games. “you passed a quest called financial …

The startup ecosystem has historically played a vital role in shaping the crypto community into an almost $2 trillion industry. However, numerous players bank on this notion to consistently overpromise and underdeliver the big WAGMI dream. Back in December 2021, Redditor busterrulezzz thought they landed their dream job after being hired by a crypto startup — only to realize that they were now a part of the problem and resigned from the position two months later. As narrated by busterrulezzz: “First of all, the level of disorganization and chaos was absolute madness. Each morning we had a different objective, based …

There’s never a dull day in Bitcoin (BTC) land. Despite that markets calling for a lull, the creative Bitcoin community always has cause for amusement. Yesterday, a Redditor by the name of Optimal-Dentistador (henceforth, OD) queried the longevity of the Bitcoin network with a time-lapse challenge. In a post made to the Bitcoin subreddit, OD “wrote a letter and also put the private keys for $100 worth in BTC.” In private communication with Cointelegraph, they disclosed they “put 0.003 BTC on a new address, put the private and public key together with the letter in the envelope, and here we …

While a bullish backdrop emerges in February, spare a thought for the traders trying to time the market. One savvy trader by the name of Samjhill on Reddit has built a trading tool that outperforms dollar-cost-averaging (DCA) for buying Bitcoin (BTC). DCA is the strategy in which investors buy a small amount regularly regardless of price fluctuations. It works in contrast to traders keen to get the lowest entry, timing the dip to perfection and avoiding “catching a falling knife.” The aptly named “Buy the Dip Bot” aims to “get the best price for a given asset by using a …

Reddit is testing out NFT profile pictures on its platform, with the news coming just a week or so after Twitter implemented a similar feature. The popular social media platform had around 430 million monthly users in 2021, and is reportedly working on an NFT profile picture implementation that will enable users to set their profile picture to any non-fungible token with an attached image. In an Interview with Techcrunch on January 27 , Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt stated that: “We’re always exploring ways to provide value for users and communities on Reddit. At the moment we’re testing the ability …

The crypto market lost over $500 billion in combined market capitalization earlier Friday. The market bloodbath led to over $700 million in liquidation as top crypto assets bled heavily. Bitcoin (BTC) fell below the critical support level of $40K while Ether (ETH) also lost $3K support. At a time when crypto proponents are debating whether the crypto market has entered a bear phase, many wild theories flooded the internet to make sense of the crash. We will look at three such theories that many believe fueled the crypto market crash. U.S. Fed’s inflation measures: The consumer inflation in the United …

The Solana blockchain has suffered a third incident in just a few months that clogged the network and caused transactions to fail, with users debating whether it was caused by another DDos attack or if it was just network issues. The scale and nature of the incident is hard to ascertain, with Coinbase, Wu Blockchain and Redditors reporting there had been an incident causing the network to slow and transactions to fail. However Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko denied there had been a DDoS on this occasion. The latest incident comes less than a month after a previous attack which …

On Friday, Polygon (MATIC) and Alexis Ohanian's venture capital firm Seven Seven Six announced a $200 million initiative backing projects operating at the intersection of social media and Web 3.0. The initiative will focus on gaming applications and social media platforms built on Polygon's infrastructure. Alex Ohanian co-founded Reddit in 2005, left in 2010, and returned as executive chairman in 2014 to lead a turnaround before resigning in 2020. He has been a seed investor in several prominent tech and blockchain firms such as Coinbase, Instacart, Sky Mavis, the maker of Axie Infinity, and Patreon. As an Ethereum scaling solution, …

On late Wednesday night, the popular social platform Reddit announced that it has started the process of making the company public. The company filed a confidential S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informing them of their intentions for going public. Per SEC regulations, they cannot provide any details about shares or prices until after a quiet period is over to protect trade secrets from being leaked before an IPO date is set. The SEC filing confirmed long-running rumors about Reddit's plans for a public offering. Back in August, Reddit raised $700 million in fresh funding, making it worth …

French gaming giant Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s new nonfungbile token (NFT) project Quartz is facing strong pushback from the gaming community. Ubisoft unveiled the Beta launch of Quartz via a brief YouTube video on Dec. 8 that has 214,721 views at the time of writing. The project aims to combine NFTs and blockchain technology with existing Triple-A game titles, and announced Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint as its first game to officially integrate NFTs. The video introduces Quartz as a platform that enables gamers to “collect the first playable and energy-efficient Ubisoft NFTs” that are dubbed as “Digits.” YouTube recently changed …

Reddit has launched a waitlist for the upcoming site-wide expansion of its Ethereum-based ‘Community Points’ token rewards program, as well as a dedicated website. The social media platform, which runs on upvotes that earn users' karma scores, first dabbled in crypto token rewards in Dec 2019, when it launched Ethereum-based token rewards called “Donuts” in the r/Ethtrader subreddit. In May 2020, the platform expanded the reward program to the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit with “Moons,” and r/FortniteBR with “Bricks” on an Ethereum testnet. Now, the program will be rolled out as an opt-in feature for subreddits across the entire platform. Similar to …

Popular community messaging app Discord has been forced to walk back its integration plans with Ethereum (ETH)-based NFTs following strong backlash from a significant number of its user base. The pushback started on Nov. 9 after Discord’s founder and CEO Jason Citron tweeted “probably nothing” accompanied by a screenshot of the app’s user settings page that displayed an ETH logo and option to connect digital wallets such as MetaMask and Wallet Connect. Citron was then bombarded with thousands of comments calling on him to abandon the plans along with users threatening to cancel Nitro subscriptions. The crypto-skeptics asserted that NFTs …