[mrec]

Reddit Gold isn't really the same; the recipient doesn't really get anything other than warm fuzzies out of it. It's more a way to support Reddit itself financially while dispensing a few of the said fuzzies on the side.

I've had minor contact with a BTC-based tipping system on Reddit, and to be honest it both annoyed me and creeped me out. I forget the name of it, but there was a period where it kept spamming me with "FooUser has tipped you $UTTERLY_DERISORY_AMOUNT, go to $SUSPICIOUS_THIRD_PARTY_SITE and connect up your identities on umpty-zillion different sites to claim it" notifications. I'm not sure who was supposed to benefit in this scenario, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't me.