The Crypto Writing Contest by NOWPayments and HackerNoon

This one’s for the HODLrs crypto spenders (jk, HODLrs can participate too) - HackerNoon has partnered with NOWPayments to bring you the Crypto Writing Contest! Here’s your chance to win 1000 USDT by writing a bullish story on #crypto.

But first… a crypto joke by the mighty machine, aka ChatGPT:

Why did the crypto investor spend all his coins on pizza?

Because he heard that it was a good way to get a slice of the market!

How to Enter The Contest

All you need to do is:

1. Write a story about anything crypto

2. Add the #crypto tag to your story and submit

   
   

…That’s it!

Need ideas to write? Here are a few suggestions by NowPayments

The contest's theme is adoption of crypto payments and crypto use cases for businesses. You can write anything relevant to this theme based on your experiences, insights, ideas, and hopes. For example:

Is your website using crypto as a way to boost traffic monetisation?

How can exchanges offer a wider variety of assets?

How do wallets offer conversion?

Are people buying coffee with crypto?

In your stories, you can mention NOWPayments as a way for businesses to accept payments in crypto or for gaming projects to integrate crypto into their flow and ChangeNOW - as a way for wallets, exchanges, GameFi projects, metaverses, etc to integrate swaps and offer a wider variety of assets.

More ideas to help you get started:

• Why are crypto payments better than fiat?
• Crypto use cases IRL
• Banks integrating crypto
• Fiat conversion for crypto adoption
• Crypto adoption for the unbanked & emergency regions
• Crypto & iGaming
• Building a wallet/exchange and using whitelabel
• Payments/exchange APIs for devs and DeFi
• Crypto adoption trends
• Crypto as a solution for business; benefits and how to's

The Crypto Writing Contest Rules & Guidelines

• You must be 18+ to enter.
• Story content can be any original story on #crypto.
• You must create a HackerNoon account, as winners will be contacted via email.

Can I write under a pen name?

Yes! You can use your real name on your HN profile, a fake name, or even create a persona to write under.

How long will the contest run?

• Round 1: May 1 - May 31, 2023

Can I submit more than one entry to the contest?

Of course, you can! Each story submission shall be considered a new entry into the writing contest.

How are the winners selected?

• We’ll take the top story submissions that generated the most traffic.
• Those ten stories will be voted on by HackerNoon staff, and the top story with the most votes will win.

We are waiting for your submissions! All the best, hackers! Visit contests.hackernoon.com to keep updated with the new and upcoming writing contests.