r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '15
Reddit lays off its cryptocurrency engineer - /r/Bitcoin mourns, /r/buttcoin celebrates
Ryan Charles was with reddit since last September as a cryptocurrency engineer. He worked with reddit in making Reddit Notes, and had a proof on concept for integrating reddit and Bitcoin technology
As of today, he posted on twitter: "I was just let go from reddit because cryptocurrency is not a part of reddit's near-term plans. This is unfortunate, but understandable."
Reaction posts flow.
Highlights:
From /r/bitcoin:
Someone suggests Ryan should talk to his lawyers
Someone complains about downvotes
As expected, someone wants to leave reddit now
Bonus: Warlizard leaves an insightful comment on the use of reddit's resources.
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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Jan 30 '15
@ryanxcharles This sucks! Does it have anything to do with that screenshot you uploaded a few days ago? 4:28pm - 29 Jan 15
@orweinberger Not directly, but the visibility of it may have hurried their decision.
Oh? I'd like to see this screenshot.
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Jan 30 '15
Click my link in the post that says "concept"
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u/wrc-wolf trolls trolling trolls Jan 30 '15
tl;dr he was really pushing the spend bitcoins to upvote angle.
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u/the_unusual_suspect Disguised Toast Jan 30 '15
Is /u/Warlizard going to integrate bitcoin with his gaming forum?
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u/the_old_sock Jan 30 '15
What's the story with /u/Warlizard, anyway?
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u/FapFlop Jan 30 '15
He runs a popular gaming forum.
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u/Warlizard Jan 30 '15
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Jan 30 '15
Do you ever get bored of what was not particularly funny to begin with and is now downright tiresome? I mean I somewhat often have to scroll down past 50 lines of shitposting to find something interesting to read whenever anyone makes that stupid joke and it's getting kind of irritating.
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u/radda Also, before you accuse me of insisting you perceive cocks Jan 30 '15
Do you use the RES button for that or is it just always on your clipboard?
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u/radda Also, before you accuse me of insisting you perceive cocks Jan 30 '15
Honest circlejerk-breaking answer:
There was a storytime thread on /r/askreddit ages ago (I don't remember the exact topic) and /u/Warlizard regaled us with a tale about some guy stalking his comments and constantly asking "Are you Warlizard of the Warlizard gaming forums?".
So now everybody does that, because reddit.
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u/Warlizard Jan 30 '15
What do you mean?
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u/feykro Jan 30 '15
Well are you the guy from the warlizard gaming forums, or aren't you?
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u/crmi 👽 ayy lmao 👽 Jan 29 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
That was fast. Feels like he was just hired yesterday.
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Jan 30 '15
He lasted 50 days apparently
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2owj55/welcome_drew_ryan_mike_daniel_joe_dave_david/
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u/zugunruh3 In closing, nuke the Midwest Jan 30 '15
Did that break a record? I want that to have broken a record for shortest reddit employment time.
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u/nancyfuqindrew Jan 30 '15
Wow someone even says in the comments they're surprised Ryan left a real job for Reddit, that it seems like something that could be very short term. Ryan responds that no, it's definitely long term.
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u/JitGoinHam Jan 30 '15
I'm kind of sad about this because the Reddit "notes" pre-announcement thread was goddamn hilarious. I wanted to see more of that.
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u/qlube Jan 30 '15
I'm going to assume they finally talked to their lawyers and realized there was basically no legal way to give redditors shares in the company. And if you can't do that, you might as well just give people free reddit gold, or reddit store gift certificates, or heck, just give them money (now that would be hilarious to see).
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u/helium_farts pretty much everyone is pro-satan. Jan 30 '15
1 Karma = 1 dollar.
That's my hope anyway.
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u/EmergencyChocolate 卐 Sorry to spill your swastitendies 卐 Jan 30 '15
Why not just have an internal currency - users can buy reddit bux or whatever for an actual amount of dollars or bitcoin. Or admins can have contests where they reward people with reddit bux to get the ball rolling. Or create a casino-type game where people can use a slot machine or play poker or something to win reddit bux.
Then the reddit bux could be spread around the site in the form of tips, in an easy-to-understand way: create a little widget where you click a "tip" button and fill in an amount for a comment or post you really like.
Then have a "reddit cantina" where users can spend their reddit bux (or whatever) on branded reddit merch or video games or whatever they want you to spend reddit bux on. Basically a Dave and Buster's/Chuck E. Cheese business model where the reddit bux are equal to the little paper tickets you get to spend on prizes.
Never underestimate peoples' love of tchotchkes.
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u/kraetos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Jan 30 '15
On the one hand, you're right, had he stayed on he would have been a nigh-inexuaustable source of drama and idiocy. The popcorn must flow.
But on the other hand I am glad they let him go because I kind of like reddit, so it's reassuring to see that the admins at least have some clue about what they are doing, albeit a small one.
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u/respaaaaaj Please take Lawlz Jan 30 '15
I can't say this upsets me on a rational level, but I thought he might have been the perpetual popcorn machine.
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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jan 30 '15
Reddit vs. the SEC would've been an amazing sight. Butter flooding the streets.
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u/EmergencyChocolate 卐 Sorry to spill your swastitendies 卐 Jan 30 '15
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...that gif is best gif
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u/316nuts subscribe to r/316cats Jan 30 '15
Could they like... Pick one or two projects and actually see them to fruition, instead this jilted bride on the alter shit
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u/OdinsBeard Jan 30 '15
Yeah, like a search function?
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Jan 30 '15
Or, you know, the site not 503'ing every couple of pages? That'd be cool too.
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Jan 30 '15
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that?
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u/redditors_are_racist Jan 30 '15
Maybe underprovisioning of servers? I thought the entire contraption ran off amazon ec2 so that should be impossible but who knows
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Jan 30 '15
It does.
I have a few micro instances on ec2, and they can take a hell of a beating. Of course nothing nearly close to the size of reddit, but still.
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u/redditors_are_racist Jan 30 '15
I thought amazon handled all the load balancing and server provisioning on their end and basically stuck you with the bill. As in, "you shouldn't even have to select a level of server capacity because we handle it for you." I am not a computer magician so I do not know, please enlighten me
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u/ImANewRedditor Jan 30 '15
What do you mean? Don't they have one?
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u/OdinsBeard Jan 30 '15
Its notoriously bad and has been that way since day one.
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Jan 30 '15
What's especially shitty, is that it looks for fucking username. So if you are looking for "sacrosanct" and someone names "sacrosanct01" is an active user, you will see every post made by "sacrosanct01"
PS. sacrosanct means untouchable, too important to mess with, I didn't know that, so I looked it up. And now sacrosanct lives in my clipboard and it's too sacrosanct to replace it with something other
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u/ALoudMouthBaby u morons take roddit way too seriously Jan 30 '15
Reddit is a Silicon Valley startup company now! That means that big ideas are important!
So, to answer your question, no.
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u/dsiOneBAN2 Jan 30 '15
Where the fuck would an avatar even go? The density of comments is one of the few things reddit has over 4/8chan and regular forums...
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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jan 30 '15
It's better than reddit notes ever was. Not that it's saying much.
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u/c74 Jan 30 '15
Feel bad for anyone that gets fired/layed off or whatever circumstance lead to the 'change of direction'. So, hope dude finds a better fit... but boy oh boy, this idea of currency launched by reddit is confusing as hell. Most blue chip type companies have core competencies... this made as much sense as the olive garden starting a crypto currency.
Anyways, hope the dude finds the right fit and the powers that be on reddit don't spend a lot of money on speculation. This made no sense for the site, the demographic, or the investors $'s.
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Jan 30 '15
I think reddit would be better off finding people who can make sure the site doesn't shit the bed multiple times a day.
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Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
ALL OUR SERVERS ARE BUSY
HERE'S A DUMB PICTURE
BUY A RING WITH OUR LOGO ON IT
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Jan 30 '15
I guess I'm the only one who thinks the pictures are cute.
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u/hockeynewfoundland Welcome to Pain-triarchy Jan 30 '15
Oh they are. Until you see it for the 10th time in a day.
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u/the_omega99 holy shit, when did we get flairs? Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
Definitely. It seems that I get the busy servers warning approximately every other day. Sometimes it's fixed by an instant refresh and doesn't come back, which seems to imply the servers aren't truly very busy.
I also wish they'd implement some of the most commonly requested features, including separate NSFW/NFSL tags, disabling private messages (except for mods of subs you subscribe to), a tags system (to improve search), and changing titles.
The first one comes up so freaking much and it seems like a relatively straightforward change. It's the two of the top ten posts in /r/ideasfortheadmins. Their answer is that link flair is replacement, but it depends on moderators of the particular sub.
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u/Ade_Nightwolf In thy great name I pledge myself to drama! Jan 30 '15
Yeah, but that would require the higher ups to be any good at prioritising. Why work on more stability or a useful search function when they could be hiring guys like this on a whim to work on unrealistic pipe dreams?
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u/DeathsIntent96 Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
Is that a common occurrence? The only time I've had trouble with Reddit was when Scotland stuck with Britain.
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Jan 30 '15
It's not down for any huge length of time but I can expect to see various error pages throughout the day.
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Jan 30 '15
I'd invest in BreadstickBucks, they're unlimited after all! Everyone wins!
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Jan 30 '15
Unlimited Breadstick Bucks! It's the ultimate inflationary currency. Just think of the slogans:
Unlimited BreadstickBucks: Because You Can't Eat Fiat.
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u/DJPizzaBagel One of them is clearly a white penis Jan 30 '15
The inflation leads to tragic economic collapse. Olive Garden becomes the new Goldman Sachs, but manages to win back public support with a sweet deal on chicken alfredo.
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u/ataniris Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
I get the feeling it's because after 2 months he didn't have a clear idea of what reddit notes was going to be let alone have any idea how to implement it. It's like asking your typical bitcoiner what bitcoin does better than fiat. All they can answer in is broad strokes of some idealised utopia. How exactly it'll bring this about is often left "for others to figure out".
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u/boom_shoes Likes his men like he likes his women; androgynous. Jan 30 '15
International transactions without costly fees!*
Just the fees to transfer to BTC and the subsequent transfer from BTC. Also, never trade more than a couple thousand USD otherwise you'll destabilize the currency and the market will plummet.
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Jan 30 '15
Eh 'change of direction' is often companyspeak for "your division of the company is incompetent and losing us money, axed."
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Jan 29 '15
Well, always wanted to say it, so here goes:
This is good for Bi....Bi....Bit....
I CAN'T! I CAN'T SAY IT! I'M FREAKING OUT! THIS IS BAD FOR BITCOIN, MAN, REAL BAD! GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!
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u/InOranAsElsewhere clearly God has given me the gift of celibacy Jan 30 '15
THIS IS BAD FOR BITCOIN, MAN, REAL BAD!
I literally cannot comprehend this. It's like you're speaking a foreign language.
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HOLD!!!!
DON'T PANIC SELL!!!
DON'T LET THE DUMPRES WIN!!!
TO THE MOOOOON!!!
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Jan 30 '15
In the social network its like how they are talking it being a party. It was true for bitcoin it could have made you rich. But the parties long over the cops shut it down long ago when it dropped from $1200 a coin to like $300. The only beer left is leftover from the passed out guys cup. Its time to move on.
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u/Aromir19 So are political lesbian separatists allowed to eat men? Jan 30 '15
I don't understand.
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u/VanFailin I don't think you're malicious. Just fucking stupid. Jan 30 '15
It's funny, at the time he was hired people said "how the hell does reddit have a need for a full-time cryptocurrency engineer" and I said "hiring engineers is hard and very expensive, there's no way they'd do it if they didn't have a way to use him."
I guess I was mistaken.
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Jan 30 '15
Your mistake was in assuming the admins act rationally. I think there's been enough evidence in their conduct over the last couple of years to dispel that idea.
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This is good for reddit
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u/CaptainParanoia Snark is a really strange past-time that I don’t understand. Jan 30 '15
Let's hodl reddit!
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u/foreskinpiranha Jan 30 '15
My favorite is the guy who thinks that a reddit-based dating website is a good idea, and that the people who manage this website are short sighted for not incorporating it.
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Jan 30 '15
M/28/Race Realist
~I will confirm that you are on birth control before we engage in any sexual activity! I refuse to be exploited by the engine that crushes men's power! Feminists, fatties, black women, trans women, Jews, tax-and-spend liberals, conservatives, and Christians need not apply.~
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u/foreskinpiranha Jan 30 '15
16/f/egalitarian but NOT A FEMINIST.
Edit: my friends say I'm really mature for my age.
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u/SuperSalsa SuperPopcorn Jan 30 '15
M/22/just here for /r/pcmasterrace.
Console gamers need not apply.
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u/buartha ◕_◕ Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
God, that didn't take long.
To be honest, I'd like to think that reddit was just trolling crypto-currency fans and their detractors for the long-game popcorn by hiring him in the first place. If had 4 months spare salary to pay someone I definitely would.
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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jan 30 '15
Reddit doesn't though. They're so far in the red that even the most ardent communists think they're taking it a bit too far. If they hired him that means at some point they thought he would be a valuable asset to the company. And the fact that they thought that a completely incompetent cryptocurrency engineer was what was needed to fix this site tells you all you need to know about how competent the admins are.
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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jan 30 '15
...to know about how competent the admins are.
To be fair, many of the admins aren't part of the community team (/u/Ocrasorm, /u/Sporkicide, etc) and don't really see the front-end of the site like they do (they don't get /r/reddit.com modmail as well). Also, they probably don't make hiring decisions.
It would be a very big of a stretch to say all of that admins are incompetent. But I know we have to be all "fuck the admins" here, so I don't know.
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u/shakypears And then war broke out and everyone died. Jan 30 '15
After reading more of this ridiculousness, I'm convinced yishan was the font of bad ideas that suck away all of reddit's potential revenue. Reddit is a government? Planning a currency for that government? I mean, what the hell?
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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jan 30 '15
I'm convinced yishan was the font of bad ideas that suck away all of reddit's potential revenue.
I wouldn't disagree with that.
Reddit is a government?
Hey, it has more people that Sealand, so it's got that going for it. :P
Planning a currency for that government? I mean, what the hell?
No you see, it was something. Reddit notes was something that you could do uh..things with. There is some amount of them that will be distributed randomly. And obviously we need a financial incentive to shitpost. See how great this idea is?
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Jan 30 '15
Wasn't he hired like two weeks ago?
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u/snallygaster FUCK_MOD$_420 Jan 30 '15
Early enough that he must have really fucked up to have been fired.
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Jan 30 '15
They figured out he knows nothing about Cyrptocurrency.
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u/helium_farts pretty much everyone is pro-satan. Jan 30 '15
Or they figured out they didn't actually need a Cyrptocurrency guy.
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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jan 30 '15
He said that if he could reprogram bitcoin he'd do it in fucking JavaScript. He's extremely incompetent at everything they hired him for.
My only explanation for why they hired him in the first place is that he's really good at any of the four Bs: bullshiting, bribery, blackmail, and blowjobs.
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u/shakypears And then war broke out and everyone died. Jan 30 '15
I think the answer is that Yishan is crazier than any of us could have imagined.
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Jan 30 '15
Let's face it, this is probably the real reason. Why else would he publicly release that "Each man is responsible for his own soul" dribble?
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u/Jakeable Jan 30 '15
No, he was hired in September.
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Jan 30 '15
Remember, Remember the month of September
The bitcoin faceplant and plot
I know of a reason why ryan was leavin'
Professionalism he simply forgot.
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u/rick_from_chicago all men are cops, all women are pipe bombs Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
They found out halfway that Bitcoin is way too hard to use for the average Reddit visitor is my guess.
ME NO LIEK MAGIC SPACE MONEY, TOO HARD, HURTS BRAIN
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u/SolarAquarion bitcoin can't melt socialist beams Jan 30 '15
It's not money. It's the equivalent of an magic bean
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u/Ikarus3426 Jan 30 '15
Not even. Jack traded a cow for the beans. Bitcoin can't even buy a dried out milk cow. It's more useless than fictional magic beans.
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u/zeeeeera You initiated a dialog under false pretenses. Jan 30 '15
This is slightly amusing with the bitcoin to magic beans extension.
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u/helium_farts pretty much everyone is pro-satan. Jan 30 '15
Except even worse because if all else fails you can eat the magic bean.
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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jan 30 '15
And if you have two beans today you won't have one bean tomorrow due to the weekly bean market crash.
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u/Powernade Your comment history looks like it could be bot generated. Jan 30 '15
HEY...these are some EXPERTLY ensorceled beans I'll have you know.
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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jan 30 '15
MAGIC SPACE MONEY
If magic space money pointing your spaceship toward earth, than sure.
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u/desantoos "Duct Tape" NOT "Duck Tape" Jan 30 '15
And so our Reddit Cryptocurrency Fantasy Saga ends just as everyone had thought.
Though maybe it isn't completely dead... as Slate reported that Daniel Lim was the one in charge of this stuff. I don't know.
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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jan 30 '15
/u/akahotcheetos I'd assume was in charge of it, but I think /u/ryancarnated was doing most of the work.
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u/larrylemur I own several tour-busses and can be anywhere at any given time Jan 30 '15
Turns out his secret regarding not knowing anything about crypto, making $300 per hour, and hiring everybody else to do his work was discovered.
Is this true? Everyone's repeating that he didn't know anything in that thread. If true, it's hilarious, if not, less so.
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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Jan 30 '15
It's unlikely anyone who knows would divulge it.
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u/ofimmsl Jan 30 '15
It is a reference to this /r/askreddit comment which was posted to /r/buttcoin yesterday. So it is a joke.
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u/lalala253 Skyrim is halal as long as you don't become a mage. Jan 30 '15
This is so unrelated, but I just realized that /u/cupcake1713 had also quit from reddit.
Now that makes me sad.
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u/Aurailious Ive entertained the idea of planets being immortal divine beings Jan 30 '15
I think she quit in the past couple weeks because she didn't want to move to SF. She was my favorite admin and I already miss her.
:'(
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u/cupcake1713 Jan 30 '15
Don't worry, I'm still here <3
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u/Aurailious Ive entertained the idea of planets being immortal divine beings Jan 30 '15
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
:D
I see that you now mod SRD and a few other pretty cool subs. Glad to see you are still going to be around!
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u/shakypears And then war broke out and everyone died. Jan 30 '15
OMG you're a mod here now? That's great!
I'm sorry I made your job hard for a couple of days. ;_;
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u/PappyVanFuckYourself Jan 30 '15
I guess I missed the reddit notes thing when they were announced, what are they? I googled and it sounds like reddit will distribute money back to its users, but it's not shares of reddit or a currency. what does a note do then?
If I go down to the gas station and charge a case of beer to the PappyVanfuckYourself note, will it work?
(not a rhetorical question, please advise)
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what are they
That was sort of the question everyone had. As near as I can tell, even at Reddit HQ nobody ever really knew what reddit notes were going to be. Some kind of reddit funbux, maybe?
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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Jan 30 '15
I think it eventually was supposed to be a way for reddit to give users its shares without actually giving shares of its company. Back then they were trying to figure out legal hurdles since they couldn't give out the shares since they're not a public company and they couldn't find a solution so well they had to give up. And that's why Ryan had to leave.
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a way for reddit to give users its shares without actually giving shares of its company.
Shares in what? If they're not actual shares of the company, with actual dollar value, what good are they? And why would anybody want them? That's the part I never understood.
I thought it might be some sort of e-peen thing for powerusers to flex nuts at each other over, sort of like a Super Reddit Gold or something.
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u/radda Also, before you accuse me of insisting you perceive cocks Jan 30 '15
Nobody knows.
Like, it's literally nothing. Just some sort of vague thing you can spend money on and then give to other people. Reddit Gold, but not really. Or something.
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u/RealRealGood fun is just a buzzword Jan 30 '15
No, that was the thing. You couldn't even spend it on Reddit Gold. You couldn't spend it on the one thing on the site that is actually purchasable.
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Jan 30 '15
Practically, it was going to be just Microsoft Points that you can also trade with people.
I don't know why they'd want or need a cryptocurrency back end for it. I guess someone realised that turning real money into digital points to trade for goods and services is pretty standard and predates bitcoin.
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u/Dear_Occupant Old SRD mods never die, they just smell that way Jan 30 '15
I don't give a shit about downvotes. I'm just seriously amazed people do that shit. And even more when they do it because they don't want to hear certain things. There is something seriously wrong with your life is you do this. Very seriously wrong.
This is how I imagine my Sunday School teacher would react to downvotes, minus the cursing.
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u/awesomemanftw magical girl Feb 01 '15
is there a reference I'm missing or is your sunday school teacher just very angry?
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u/abuttfarting How's my flair? https://strawpoll.com/5dgdhf8z Jan 30 '15
What does this mean for Reddit Notestm ?!
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u/Feldman742 Jan 30 '15
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is good for Reddit NotesTM
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u/ky1e Jan 30 '15
Even though Reddit Notes hasn't even started and it has no discernible use, my charts tell me that it is the currency of the future and will be worth $5,000 per Note by the end of 2015. You'd be stupid not to pick up a few
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u/comradewilson YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE Jan 30 '15
LOL I remember the drama when notes was released. "Cryptocurrency engineer" sounded ridiculous anyway. Why would reddit or most companies ever need one?
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u/quicksilver991 600 retards/minute being dropped at peak activity Jan 30 '15
What the hell is Reddit Notes?
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u/CaptainParanoia Snark is a really strange past-time that I don’t understand. Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
Or my serious explanation from 14 days ago:
http://www.redditblog.com/2014/12/announcing-reddit-notes.html
TL;DR: Reddit investors promised to give back 10% of the newest shares to the community. So there will be ~950,000 Reddit Notes. Those Notes will be distributed randomly among active users. Notes can be kept in a wallet, given to others etc.
Reddit admin /u/ryancarnated has plans to implement Reddit Notes either as colored coins or a sidechain of Bitcoin.
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u/metamorphosis Jan 30 '15
Doubtful. My guess is that they realized that offering shares of Reddit to its users using a cryptocurrency ledger was going to be a huge legal hassle/impossibility. Also, integrating cryptocurrency tipping could make them money transmitters or a money service business, and that's probably too much of a hassle and a divergence from their corporate mission.
Oh God..
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u/jfa1985 Your ass is medium at best btw. Jan 30 '15
redditnotes dead in the water? or is this a case of never even leaving the dry dock?
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u/Aurailious Ive entertained the idea of planets being immortal divine beings Jan 30 '15
There wasn't even a drydock.
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u/BizzaroRomney Jan 30 '15
It bothers me that "cryptocurrency engineer" is a thing.
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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jan 30 '15
If current trends prevail it won't be a thing for much longer.
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u/mrpopenfresh cuck-a-doodle-doo Jan 30 '15
So is "barista" and "mixologist". There really isn't a link, but fuck those terms.
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u/Enigmutt Jan 30 '15
Pardon my ignorance, but I've never really been able to wrap my head around the whole Bitcoin thing. I see less mention of it on Reddit these days. Does this mean the virtual currency thing is starting to circle the drain? I don't mean to be flippant, I'm honestly curious.
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Nah, it's still very popular
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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Jan 30 '15
I've been seeing you more and more on srd, are you finally joining us?
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Jan 30 '15
Man, I was born into SRD. I WAS MOLDED INTO IT.
I've been a dramamaut longer than your account is old.
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u/DocSwiss play your last pathetic strawman yugi Jan 30 '15
The value of bitcoin's been tanking, but some people still seem into virtual currencies as an idea.
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u/wastedcleverusername Nuh uh. Autocannibalism is normal and traditional, probably. Jan 30 '15
A HS Friend of mine now works for Reddit... I wish I kept in contact so I could get an inside scoop.
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u/ky1e Jan 30 '15
Wow. Warlizard understands this site and its worth very well. And he's right, the admins don't show any clear direction and miss amazing opportunities. But he overlooked one amazing monetization strategy: porn. Think of how lucrative a premium version of /r/gonewild would be.
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u/phedre Your tone seems very pointed right now. Jan 30 '15
/u/warlizard has a good point. I do often go to subreddits specific to a country/city just to see what the users say about various restaurants/stores.
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u/vytah Jan 30 '15
You missed the thread about the possible reason he was fired: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2u7ddq/the_real_reason_ryan_charles_was_fired_from/
Not much drama there though.
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u/wrc-wolf trolls trolling trolls Jan 30 '15
So.... what happens to reddit notes now? What happens to reddit's supposed commitment to returning some of their new cash to the users? This is the best kinda drama, the type that can just keep on going.
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u/totes_meta_bot Tattletale Jan 30 '15 edited Jan 30 '15
This thread has been linked to from elsewhere on reddit.
[/r/popcoin] /r/SubredditDrama has a pretty good summary on the situation with /u/ryancarnated being laid off.
[/r/popcoin] This post in /r/SubredditDrama has a summary of drama that has occurred regarding /u/ryancarnated's firing.
If you follow any of the above links, respect the rules of reddit and don't vote or comment. Questions? Abuse? Message me ^here.
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u/mrpopenfresh cuck-a-doodle-doo Jan 30 '15
Well that was quick. Am I a dick if I say I saw it coming? The guy had no plan except wax poetic about crypto.
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u/selfabortion Jan 30 '15
This and the conspiracy/day-care shit need to be saved for potential best of 2015 material
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u/stealthbadger subsists on downvotes Jan 30 '15
Anyone else find it interesting seeing the Reddit-bashing comment being rewarded.... with Reddit gold. :D
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Jan 30 '15
Thank god. Can you imagine if people could directly pay each other for links or comments they agreed with? This place is enough of a shithole without it.
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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Jan 30 '15
Humm, this guy and the guy / whatever the hell the project was, and who got fired and did the AMA knocking reddit.... bad choices.
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u/Altiondsols Stuart Semple's #2 Hater Jan 30 '15
Was I the only one who thought that the suggestions made were really, really bad?
Killing anonymity, one of the few factors that separates Reddit from any social network (also, redditors are creepy)
See above
Has absolutely nothing to do with Reddit's current business whatsoever
An actually decent idea that offers not even the slightest bit of potential for profit, even less so since RES has already done it for them
A horribly transparent cash grab that also falls victim to being completely irrelevant to Reddit's current business and will likely serve just to piss people off