Reddit is used by hundreds of millions of people across the world who are either creators or users.

One of the ways it encourages them is via Reddit Coins.

Reddit Coins are neither physical coins nor cryptocurrency tokens and are not in any way connected to the blockchain.

Reddit Coins homepage showing coins

What Are Reddit Coins?

Awarding a coin is known as gilding.

you’re able to buy Reddit Coins with fiat currency via PayPal or credit card.

Pricing tiers for Reddit Coins

Prices start from $1.99 all the way to $199.

However, Reddit Coins are not withdrawable at the moment.

Reddit is working on adding new ways to spend coins in the future.

Reddit comments showing Gift Award and other buttons

In the meantime, you may only award them.

For a Gold Award, the recipient gets a week ofReddit Premiummembership plus 100 coins.

A Platinum Award gives the recipient one month of Premium membership and 700 coins for the month.

Reddit coins gift award page

An Argentium Award gives the recipient 2,500 Reddit Coins and three months of r/lounge access plus ad-free browsing.

How to Get and Use Reddit Coins

There are three major ways of getting Reddit Coins.

One, Reddit may give away coins on rare special occasions.

However, coins are non-transferrable across usernames.

Thirdly, you’re able to always get Reddit Coins by buying them yourself.

This is the fastest, easiest, and most guaranteed way of getting coins.

However, clicking through will show you more details.

Remember that you’re free to gift it as an Award.

Facebook recently launched its Stars Program which allows users to gift stars to creators similar to Reddit Coins.

However, unlike Reddit Coins, creators can actually cash out on Facebook Stars.

Relax, Redditors, perhaps your time too will come.