At the time of the announcement, the moderators of most of the subreddits involved with the community points program claimed to be unaware of the decision.
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whats sad is it does not need to be. gridcoin has a steady value based on the grid computing it provides (outside of a brief spike when idiots where buying anything labled as crypto). As far as I know its the only example where the value has any meaning.
No, this is a different thing that was around for over a year but that a lot of people weren't aware of until recently. Iirc, they were these karma-based blockchain points that a subreddit could have. Don't remember much of the details