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Title: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: Quantus on July 04, 2015, 01:15:07 AM Reddit the "front page of the internet" pissed off a lot of its users who are now jumping ship to a Bitcoin friendly version called Voat. With less rules.
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114737/will-bitcoin-friendly-voatco-replace-reddit reddit had last month 174,088,361 unique visitors the population of Greece is 11.03 million Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: gogxmagog on July 04, 2015, 04:15:24 AM I sure hope so, anything to help the bitcoin is good. Ive been hearing about Voat a lot lately, but every time I try and have a look its offline. they better get some serious servers set up.
Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: xhomerx10 on July 04, 2015, 04:23:26 AM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than".
"Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: Quantus on July 04, 2015, 04:39:07 AM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Sorry Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: Carlton Banks on July 04, 2015, 09:52:00 AM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Thenk you fir yor corectian, without witch it woold be impassible to undastand the title. Keep up the god wurk. Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: TraderTimm on July 04, 2015, 06:33:22 PM Your title isn't formatted like all the other News submissions, and what you are pointing out is more suited for a forum thread in another section.
Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: LiteCoinGuy on July 04, 2015, 06:40:51 PM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Thenk you fir yor corectian, without witch it woold be impassible to undastand the title. Keep up the god wurk. no problem. the content is more important than the spelling. :) Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: IIOII on July 04, 2015, 11:34:09 PM Please forgive, that after all these grammatical corrections I comment on topic:
Any additional service that accepts Bitcoin is a plus. However Voat is not big yet, it still has to grow. Also the effect from Greece is a totally different one: Greece's problems and subsequent "solutions" - the freezing (and likely expropriation) of funds - have a tangible impact on people's mindset in regard to money. People will loose trust in banks and government money. They will actively search for alternatives to protect their savings. So Bitcoin might profit greatly if it is perceived as a store of value, not primarily as a tool to purchase services (for which Voat is an example). Of course, both developments are reinforcing themselves reciprocally. Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 04, 2015, 11:58:05 PM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Sorry Dude, are you exclamation-mark-phobic? Sorry! This could be bigger then the Greece bailout! BTW, thanks for the thread, from periodphobic dude Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: EndTheFed321 on July 05, 2015, 02:48:54 AM Kool man, thanks for the heads up on that site. Never made an account on Reddit will be creating account and donating BTC to the site Voat
Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: pooya87 on July 05, 2015, 02:58:18 AM Voat is under extremely heavy load. :D
it looks like they are crushed under the heavy site traffic that they have gotten due to the recent reddit events. i wonder if they can come close to reddit's number of users... Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: HYPERfuture on July 05, 2015, 03:03:51 AM Reddit had their chance. They fired their BTC expert (this was about 6 months ago - the new ownership there sucks balls). Nice one Reddit! Time to roll over and die like all the other technological revolutions that could not embrace the change (Betamax comes to mind).
EDIT: The high load seems to show me they would have most of r/Bitcoin users if they can get better hosting. Everyone knows Reddit is dead or dying long live Reddit! ;D Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: scarsbergholden on July 05, 2015, 03:40:31 AM is funny to see a website that was doing so great now just being replaced beacuse they took the wrong steps implementing something like bitcoin, or just offering a better solution.
Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: MTBTT on July 05, 2015, 04:49:17 AM Voat is under extremely heavy load. :D Why not? It is a free market. Voat has a chance of success if they implements their strategy properly. I quite like their three possible options for partner program payments, which is like content rewarding scheme. More writers would rather go here for writing and sharing content with users and users will be more willing to come here as well.it looks like they are crushed under the heavy site traffic that they have gotten due to the recent reddit events. i wonder if they can come close to reddit's number of users... Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: pawel7777 on July 05, 2015, 11:47:17 AM Just created an account and testing the site.
The BTC donations are looking pretty good https://blockchain.info/address/1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: Herbert2020 on July 05, 2015, 12:54:02 PM it looks like Reddit messed with the wrong crowd now :)
i couldn't access voat before but now it is ok and everything looks smooth and cool, lets see if they can become popular. Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: bryant.coleman on July 05, 2015, 12:54:35 PM Reddit had their chance. They fired their BTC expert (this was about 6 months ago - the new ownership there sucks balls). Nice one Reddit! Time to roll over and die like all the other technological revolutions that could not embrace the change (Betamax comes to mind). Reddit committed the same mistake which Yahoo mail did almost two decades ago. Sometimes, success makes you arrogant (can't blame them actually, when they are having 90%+ market cap). Reddit became popular too soon, and the owners became ultra-arrogant as a result of it. Eventually, Yahoomail was demolished by Gmail. Orkut got trashed by Facebook. Similar to these incidents, Reddit will also lose its users to Voat. Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: xhomerx10 on July 06, 2015, 01:20:45 AM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Thenk you fir yor corectian, without witch it woold be impassible to undastand the title. Keep up the god wurk. I still don't understand the title. WTF is reddit? Title: Re: This could be bigger then the Greece bailout Post by: Denker on July 06, 2015, 12:48:06 PM "bigger then" is grammatically incorrect; in this case you should use the word "than". "Then" is mainly an adverb and is generally used to denote time whereas "than" is a conjunction which is used primarily when making a comparison as you are trying to do in the subject of this thread. Thenk you fir yor corectian, without witch it woold be impassible to undastand the title. Keep up the god wurk. I still don't understand the title. WTF is reddit? Reddit is kind of a big forum with many thousands of subforums (subreddits). A place to meet for everyone. But they messed it up since a long time. So as soon as voat is reachable I will check the site out. By the way voat got donated 45 BTC by more than 1000 people. :) Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: AtheistAKASaneBrain on July 06, 2015, 01:04:48 PM I don't really know exactly why people are moving, because they fired who? and why did this person got fired?
Anyway, Reddit always sucked. I never liked the layout. I hated clicking on a "thread" and being directed to a link instead of opening up like on regular forums. The only thing I liked is the easy of creating a new account without any confirmation bullshits. Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: bodgybrothers on July 06, 2015, 04:46:08 PM it could be and so could 6bfd3c06
Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: scarsbergholden on July 06, 2015, 04:53:19 PM I don't really know exactly why people are moving, because they fired who? and why did this person got fired? Anyway, Reddit always sucked. I never liked the layout. I hated clicking on a "thread" and being directed to a link instead of opening up like on regular forums. The only thing I liked is the easy of creating a new account without any confirmation bullshits. I guess is most likely a part of the community support a few individuals where putting into Reddit, now having a competitor they most likely want to make a statement that their management is far behind in things and the community response is switching. Title: Re: This could be bigger than the Greece bailout Post by: manselr on July 10, 2015, 04:04:10 PM Voat has been down most of the time since the mass exodus. But yeah, losing 174 million unique visitors is rather huge. I don't think all of them will move.. also, it seems now reddit is backpedaling and is looking into decentralizing it and running reddit under the bitcoin blockchain. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-revolt-site-could-be-rebuilt-bitcoin-tech-blockchain-end-censorship-blackouts-1509710 In any scenario, it doesn't matter because Bitcoin always benefits. |