New Gold Payment Options: Bitcoin and Credit Card

Starting today we'll be accepting bitcoin and credit cards for purchasing reddit gold, in addition to the existing options of PayPal and Google Wallet. We've gotten some requests for additional payment methods so hopefully this brings us closer to reaching everyone who wants to buy gold.

We're using Coinbase as our bitcoin payment processor and Stripe for credit cards. Right now we're only accepting credit card payments from the US and Canada, but bitcoin payments can be made from anywhere in the world.

Buy your loved ones reddit gold for Valentine's Day--it's a gift sure to warm their hearts.

You can buy gold here and see the current gold features here.

NOTE: In a week or so I hope to open up credit card payments to all countries.

Welcome New Admin Chad (a.k.a. Deimorz)!

We are excited to announce the newest member of team reddit: Chad Birch a.k.a. Deimorz. Many of you already know Deimorz from his many fine contributions to the community including the mighty AutoModerator bot, that now helps moderate about 500 subreddits. We're thrilled to be able to bring him on board the mothership, and plan on putting him to work on reddit gold features right away. We'll let Chad tell you a little bit about himself:

I grew up in the small town of Cranbrook, British Columbia (Canada), but now live in Calgary, Alberta. You might already have seen me around reddit - I moderate /r/Games (not to be confused with /r/gaming), run the stattit reddit statistics site, and am quite active in the "meta"-type subreddits (including recently being named "top contributor of the year" in /r/TheoryOfReddit's Best of 2012). I'm excited to be joining the team, and am especially happy about finally having a good excuse to give my wife for why I'm spending so much of my free time on the site.

None of us would be able to work at this job we love without the community. Thank you all for your support and contributions. Whether it's through reddit gold, ads, amazing mod work, contributing to our open source code, being active in the reddit dev community, or just participating on the site, Chad and all of us thank you. 

Top 500 AMAs (on /r/IAmA)

Shitty_Watercolour welcomes Adam Savage

"Ask Me Anything" interviews (or AMAs) have been a reddit staple for over three years, and in that time we've had more than a few interesting folks stop by.

From actors to politicians, game developers to musicians, there's a seemingly endless number of community interviews on /r/IAmA to peruse. In fact, we've had over 4000 AMAs with more than 100 comments in the last year alone.

Moderator /u/karmanaut has recently collected data on the top 500 AMAs from the subreddit's birth up to the end of 2012, and organized them by category.

Check out the full list below.

• Actors/Entertainers - 80 AMAs
• Athletes - 9
• Authors - 11
• Business/Entrepreneurs - 30
• Crime/Prison - 12
• Directors/Crew - 39
• Gaming - 33
• Journalists - 28
• Medical Conditions - 17
• Military - 13
• Musicians - 19
• NSFW - 10
• Other - 130
• Political - 38
• Science - 31

Here's the visual breakdown:

And while you're there, don't forget to vote in /r/IAmA's BestOf 2012 Awards thread!

AaronSw (1986 - 2013)

Photo by Jacob Applebaum

Aaron Swartz /u/Aaronsw (1986 – 2013) 

We at reddit were saddened by the news of Aaron's passing. Here is a statement from his family. Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family and loved ones.

Aaron joined reddit in 2006. His friends and family are sharing memories and stories on rememberaaronsw.com.

If you feel so moved, join us in donating to Demand Progress or GiveWell in Aaron's memory so that his work for civil liberties, civil rights, and government reform can continue.

Top Posts of the Year and Best of 2012 Awards

from best of /r/Photoshopbattles

2012 has come to a close, and it's been an amazing year for reddit. We've had approximately:

 • 37 Billion Pageviews
 • 400 Million Unique Visitors
 • 4 Billion Votes
 • 30 Million Posts
 • 260 Million Comments

Here are some highlights from the year.

Top Ten Posts of 2012 (by total pageviews)

1. I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA (5,598,171 pageviews)

2. What's your "picture you can't see without laughing"? (2,450,140 pageviews )

3. What's your favorite picture on the whole Internet? (2,148,400 pageviews)

4. reddit, what do you look like before and after makeup? Is there a real difference? (2,142,071 pageviews)

5. Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note. Do any of you have any idea what it means? (1,756,748 pageviews)

6. What GIF makes you laugh every single time? (1,749,185 pageviews)

7. I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result. (1,651,956 pageviews)

8. I am South Korean Singer, Rapper, Composer, Dancer and Creator of Gangnam Style PSY. AMA (1,514,034 pageviews)

9. What's your secret that could literally ruin your life if it came out? (1,482,935 pageviews)

10. I'm Snoop Lion! Ask me anything!! (1,467,071 pageviews)

First Post of 2012 - reddit, what mistake do you regret that didn't turn out so bad, yet you still regret it anyway?

Last Post of 2012 - (will be updated once determined)

Best of 2012 Awards
This year we decided to do something a bit different and have the glorious multitude of subreddits host their own Best of 2012 awards. Here are some highlights of the results from /r/Bestof2012:

• Best of /r/PhotoShopBattles
• Best of /r/ExplainLikeImFive

• 

  from /r/woahdude's best of 2012

  Best Static Visualization & more from /r/DataIsBeautiful
• Best of /r/StonerPhilosophy
• Al Borland of the Year from /r/HomeImprovement
• Most Inspiring Story & Best of /r/RandomActsofChristmas
• Best of /r/LadyBoners
• Meta statistics - traffic, moderation & more form /r/TheoryOfReddit 
• Ă…rets kommentar & Best of /r/Sweden
• Most Interesting /r/AskScience Posts
• Top "What Are You Wearing Today" photo & other /r/MaleFashionAdvice awards
• Most Evil Plan of the Year from /r/MyEvilPlan
• Best /r/OnePiece Manga Chapter of the Year
• "The Moanies" - The Top /r/IrishProblems of the Year
• Best Academic Advice for /r/UCSantaBarbara Students
• Best Theory Analysis, Top Crow, & Other /r/ASOIAF awards
• Best Wrestling Match of the Year, Worst Merchandise & other awards from /r/SquaredCircle
• Trippiest Mindfuck & other Best of's from /r/woahdude
• "The Jerkies" - 2012's Biggest Circlejerks

/r/TrueBestof2012 is also holding community awards, and there is still time to vote for:

• Best Mod-Team of the Year
• Best New Community
• Best Big Community
• Worst Troll of the Year
• Best Little Community of the Year

And just for fun, here are some stats on admin voting patterns during 2012

Happiest Admins (Highest ratio of upvotes to downvotes)

      • krispykrackers
      • kirbyrules
      • kemitche & chromakode (tie)


Unhappiest Admins (Highest ratio of downvotes to upvotes)

      • rram
      • reostra
      • bitcrunch


Thanks for an outstanding 2012. Looking forward to what you all come up with in the new year!

You Decide reddit's Best of 2012

As we wrap up another amazing year, communities across reddit are voting on their favorite posts and comments of 2012.

Head on over to /r/bestof2012 to discover and vote on the best of reddit's past year.

What's the best news story of 2012? The best question on /r/AskScience of the year? Or the most thought-provoking post of TwoXChromosomes? Want to find the best of /r/MaleFashionAdvice? The coolest data visualizations of the year? Perhaps you'd like to nominate a teacher for UniversityofReddit's awards.

Also, check out the community run /r/TrueBestOf2012, where you can vote on categories like the Best All-Around reddit Hero or Best New Community.

Winners of community best of contests will receive reddit gold and other cool prizes. If you moderate a subreddit, it's not too late to run your own best of 2012 awards. See /r/bestof2012 for the details, and use the new contest mode to hold blind voting threads.

Happy Holidays from all of us at reddit!

Cheers to everyone this holiday season. Whether you are celebrating with loved ones, curled up by the fire, or escaping family with some quiet redditing, we wish all of you a very joyous midwinter celebration.

If you are feeling bored or a bit down, here are a few stocking stuffers from the reddit community.

• Raise a glass with those alone and working during the holidays
• Join /r/Random Acts of Christmas in watching kids opening presents and telling Christmas stories.
• Watch /r/Assistance's Holiday video
• Feast on some /r/christmas morsels.
• Contribute to /r/atheism's Doctors Without Borders Charity Drive
• Holidays are a great time for some /r/nostalgia.
• Get some inspiration for holiday party appropriate nail art /r/randomactsofpolish
• Show off your evergreen at /r/lookatmytree
• Hop into the bountiful game threads over on /r/NBA 
• Enjoy some classy Christmas music with /r/christmasmusic and reddit.tv

Peace on Earth & The Twelve Dimensional Multiverse,

alienth
bitcrunch
bsimpson
chromakode
cupcake1713
dacvak
5days
hueypriest
intortus
jenakalif
kemitche
kickme444
kirbyrules
krispykrackers
pixelinaa
powerlanguage
rebeccalyn
reostra
rram
slyf
snoo
spladug
weffey
yishan