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This decentralized Reddit copycat lets you buy upvotes with Bitcoin

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech This decentralized Reddit copycat lets you buy upvotes with Bitcoin

ThunderMessage is a decentralized take on Reddit powered by Bitcoin‘s Lightning Network – and it’s already full of shitposts. Just like in Reddit, users can post messages, and then upvote and downvote them. But this message board is different – instead of clicks, you have to send small amount of Bitcoin for each upvote or downvote. One Satoshi (a Satoshi is 0.00000001 BTC), one upvote (or downvote). What results is really a great demonstration of the decentralized nature of the blockchain – but also feels strangely metaphoric to the state of cryptocurrencies in general. It is totally devoid of censorship,…

This story continues at The Next Web

Authored by Piyush Suthar
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