Yeah they've already been doing this to a certain extent in a few different subreddits now for at least a year or more. In others it's been going on for almost 3 years, I know in an ethereum-related subreddit that I've frequented in the past they have been giving out an ERC-20 token, not necessarily as a means for paying people but mainly as a means of tracking valuable contributions and using it to pay forward the governance features for moderation of the subreddit, kind of interesting.

Then there's also the subreddit /r/cryptocurrency which is a ridiculous place full of bots trying to farm their native shitcoin, $MOONS which recently had a pretty big pump in the price when it got listed on a few popular exchanges. I found this out when I had checked on this portfolio website I used to use and noticed that it said I had several thousand dollars I had no idea existed...turns out that the couple thousand of "moons" that I had earned from posting in there a while back had accrued some value over the last couple of months. So I did what any of us would do, I immediately dumped that shit on Uniswap for ETH and then I went to Fixedfloat and swapped that for some BTC. I certainly won't deny anyone, even a bunch of reddit nerds from giving me free bitcoin.