Reddit began experimenting with a crypto-based points system to much fanfare in April. But now, as the social network has realized that there’s a major stumbling block if it wants to roll the feature out to all 430 million of its monthly users: Ethereum has scalability issues.

Reddtors in r/Fortnite have adopted crypto-based Community Points in a trial even more enthusiastically than r/CryptoCurrency (Photo: EpicGames)