VKontakte will pay users for the time spent on the social network

The social network VKontakte is working on the issue of creating its own cryptocurrency, but the final decision on its launch has not yet been made, a source familiar with the company's plans told RNS.

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According to him, the current configuration of the project involves the creation of individual accounts for the accumulation of cryptocurrency to all users of the social network, writes RNS.

At the disposal of the editors of RNS there is a presentation, from which it follows that one of the options for obtaining cryptocurrency is to charge Coins for the time spent on the social network and activity. The cryptocurrency earned in this way can be accumulated, transferred to other users, exchanged for tangible goods and converted via VK Pay.

Users will also be able to receive cryptocurrency for interesting publications on the social network: users, along with the likes, will be able to share currency with the authors of publications, similarly it could work with reposts and comments.

The press service of "VKontakte" declined to comment.

VKontakte launched its own payment system VK Pay in June 2018. Users can make purchases and pay for services both in a special section on VKontakte and on VK Pay partner sites.

According to VKontakte, the number of active users of a social network per month is 97 million, users send 6,5 billion messages daily and put 1 billion marks “Like”, the number of video views is 550 million per day.

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