That's not an unreasonable assumption considering Reddit has in the past announced that they would be doing research into adding a cryptocurrency to Reddit, to give "more ownership to its users". AFAIK that plans have been dropped a long time ago.

Re: Reddit Coins

Post by mkwia » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 11:47 AM UTC

KiDD wrote: post #2

I don't know why I expected this to be block chain related...

I thought that too; possibly something to replace STEEM

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