Cointest Updates: Winners, adjustments, and rounds ending.

Hello r/CryptoCurrency, following up on our announced updates to the Cointest competition, we wanted to congratulate the most recent winners.As a reminder, the r/CryptoCurrency Cointest is a recurring competition to crowdsource the best arguments in support of or against a crypto topic by awarding Moon prizes to the winning contestants. The end goal is to provide r/CC readers with a balanced source of quality information for cryptocurrency research.UpdatesWinners - Coin InquiriesThe Coin Inquiries round ended on July 31st and a total of 7,350 moons have been paid out to the winners listed below.Topic1st2nd3rdVET ConFrogsDoBeCoolInteresting-Engine34olderfucker1VET ProidevcgFrogsDoBeCoolHsiang7XLM ConFrogsDoBeCoolidevcgInteresting-Engine34XLM ProStonedJourneyFrogsDoBeCoolInteresting-Engine34NANO Con-_PotatoShippioraxatarNANO Prot3rr0rMIS-conceptmetaManEmpiricalLandMoons ConwanderingcryptowolfpseudoHappyHippyAtcvanMoons ProAtcvanidevcgaxatarXMR ConidevcgWargizmotpaultXMR ProMrMoustacheManAwhodotheyFrogsDoBeCoolLTC ConmetnavmanFrogsDoBeCoolidevcgLTC PrometnavmanFrogsDoBeCoolpmbuttsonlyIOTA ConBlendzi0rAtcvanFrogsDoBeCoolIOTA ProFrogsDoBeCoolI_am_fed_up_of_SAPidevcgThe new Coin Inquiries round has been live for two weeks. Therefore as per the rules, contestants are allowed to copy arguments from the prior round, like the ones above, and reuse them in the current round if the original authors haven't done so already. The usernames of the original authors must be cited in the copied arguments.Team Additionsu/CryptoChief has recruited an additional two administrators to help with the project:/u/MrMoustacheMan and /u/IHaventEvenGotADog are now joined by /u/_martinshkreli_ and /u/FrogsDoBeCool in their duties such as judging, maintaining AutoMod rules, answering modmails at r/CointestAdmin, updating the archive, etc.If you're interested in joining the team, click here for details.Category ChangeAfter soliciting input from the community, we renamed the Community Favs category to Coin Inquiries. If you want to request a coin to be added to the next Coin Inquiries round, submit a post on r/CryptoCurrencyMeta so it can be publicly discussed with the team and the community.The General Technology category might be changed to General Ideas in September. The intention is to make it a broader category so it can cover other engaging topics like inflation, regulation, privacy, ETFs, etc. The technology topics will still be included.RemindersThe registry collects all rounds open for participation in one place.The archive lists out all current and closed topics. Users can find prior threads on a topic to help refine their arguments (or to help with DYOR).The policy section outlines Cointest rules and guidelines.Rounds Ending SoonThe soonest round to end will be this month for the General Tech category. Topics registered for this round are:Proof of stakeProof of workLightning NetworkDAGNFTIf you'd like to participate in this category, submit an argument before the end of the month.

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 11:41PM