Bitcoin Subreddit Hits 1 Million Subscribers

Reddit is one of the oldest social media sites online, “the front page of the Internet” and a place to share stuff found online. Competitors like Voat.co have come and gone over the years, struggling to battle the network effect of the massive userbase, and while the site predominantly caters to the English-speaking Internet, its userbase rivals that of the United States itself, at 330 million as of September.

For years, Reddit’s Bitcoin community seems to have been a central part of the space. It became so heated at various points that when moderators miffed users too often, moderating or deleting their content, other subreddits or communities were created, such as r/BTC, which was established by Roger Ver and other Bitcoin Cash proponents and eventually became the primary gathering point of such parties. This because the Bitcoin subreddit’s rules don’t typically allow new posts about altcoins or forks of Bitcoin, and eventually came to encompass “contentious…