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Bitcoin - A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System. When r/Bitcoin moderators began censoring content and banning users they disagreed with, r/btc became a community for free and open crypto discussion. This happened long before the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Over the years /r/btc became community of historians & torchbearers, preservers of Satoshi's Bitcoin for future generations. Founded 2011 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.7K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
8.7Kbest post
1.8Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 24% 13% 9%
Image 54% Text 24% Link 13% Video 9%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

🐻 Bearish 4 ⌨ Discussion 3 WOW! 2 Meme 2 /r/All 1 😉 Meme 1 ⚠️ Alert ⚠️ 1 😜 Joke 1 🐂 Bullish 1 Alert 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Evidence that the mods of /r/Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /r/Bitcoin.

↑ 8.7K 💬 1.2K text 2017

The idiocracy of r/bitcoin

↑ 7.9K 💬 755 video 2018

As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method

↑ 7.1K 💬 1.2K link 2017

Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase

↑ 5.4K 💬 998 link 2017

r/bitcoin mods removed top post: "The rich don't need Bitcoin. The poor do"

↑ 4.9K 💬 489 image 2017

Average Bitcoin transaction fee is now above five dollars. 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. So much for "banking the unbanke…

↑ 3.5K 💬 468 text 2017

Latest projections show BTC will break the time space continuum

↑ 3.4K 💬 146 image 2017

The whole world is tracking his wallet now

↑ 3.4K 💬 375 image 2025

Two biggest Bitcoin subs according to their counterparts (posted on both subs)

↑ 3.2K 💬 230 image 2017

rBitcoin logic: Cashing out? You should kill yourself instead

↑ 3K 💬 550 image 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/btc, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/btc?
r/btc ("Bitcoin - A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System") describes itself this way: When r/Bitcoin moderators began censoring content and banning users they disagreed with, r/btc became a community for free and open crypto discussion. This happened long before the creation of Bitcoin Cash. Over the years /r/btc became community of historians & torchbearers, preservers of Satoshi's Bitcoin for future generations. It was founded in 2011 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/btc have?
r/btc has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.7K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/btc?
"Evidence that the mods of /r/Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /r/Bitcoin." reached 8.7K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/btc.
What subreddits are similar to r/btc?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/btc?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are image posts and 24% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/btc?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/btc?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/btc has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/btc, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.