The Crypto Writing Contest by NOWPayments: Winner Announced!

Welcome to the results announcement of The Crypto Writing Contest by NowPayments and HackerNoon. This contest is part of our mini-writing contest series and has been among the most successful! 70+ HackerNoon contributors published 100+ crypto stories in 1 month, generating around 100k reads and 10+ days of reading time!

It’s time to celebrate the top contenders. 🎉

The Crypto Writing Contest: Top 10 Nominations

For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #cryptotag on HackerNoon, published in May. Then, we chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for:

1. Number of hours read
2. The number of people reached
3. The freshness of the content

Here’s the list of the top 10 stories:

1. Unleashing the Power of Digital Collectibles with BRC-721 by @otterolie

2. Bitcoin in Unprecedented Trouble: What Just Happened? by @stephanbv

3. The Making of the $Turbo Meme Coin With ChatGPT: The Joke That Became a Reality by @ani-alexander

4. Unleashing the Potential: Innovations/Suggestions for Crypto and Blockchain by @induction

5. PEPE: The Frog Might Flip the Dog by @ani-alexander

6. How to Deploy BRC20 token in Bitcoin network: Ecosystem overview by @sirfedos

7. How to Set Up an Ethereum 2.0 Node & Validator Using Docker Swarm: A Step-by-Step Guide by @tirtha

8. Bitcoin Is The ONLY Digital Scarcity That Matters — Here's Why by @eduardoprospero

9. Analyze Almost 1 Billion Bitcoin Transactions in Less Than 1 Minute Using This Tool by @krieker

10. What to Do if Your MetaMask Wallet Gets Hacked? (Tips That Work) by @ebubedikemartin

    
    

The winner #crypto story with 4000+ reads and the highest number of votes is:

Loved it because it combined 2 trending technologies crypto/blockchain and ChatGPT. More importantly, it is an original tale of using chatgpt to make a memecoin. The writer formatted it well, used many visuals, and told the story in a clear and interesting way. - HackerNoon Editor

Congratulations,@ani-alexander! You have won 1000 USDT. We will contact you with the next steps to claim the prize shortly.

Shoutout to all the writers who participated in the contest!

About NOWPayments

NOW Solutions is an ecosystem of enterprise solutions that allows businesses to integrate crypto and benefit from it. NOW Solutions includes: ChangeNOW, NOWPayments, and many other solutions. ChangeNOW is an instant exchange (swap) platform which supports 800+ assets. NOWPayments is a non-custodial crypto payment gateway that lets you accept payments in 160+ cryptocurrencies, with auto coin conversion available.

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