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Subscriber growth is harder to track than the other metrics. Only the current subscriber count is displayed for a particular subreddit, and historical data cannot be rebuilt retrospectively as subscribers do not have a visible historical imprint. A third-party website, RedditMetrics (http://redditmetrics.com/), has been retrieving and storing real-time subscriber counts; however their data on the particular subreddits of interest only reaches back to 2012 so the subscriber growth analysis can only start at this point. Fig 2 shows the three social media metric time series for each cryptocurrency; note that subscriber growth is the only metric that can have negative associated values, caused by more users unsubscribing than subscribing on a particular day.

Anyway, SafeMoon has been under the eyes of skepticism. Professionals say that it is an unpredictable business to put money into SafeMoon as it isn’t directed by using any particular means. It has been compared with a Ponzi Scheme as most liquidity is claimed by the group. SafeMoon has excused these cynics and has declared its precise path for the coming years. The group intends to coordinate SafeMoon with African Markets, investigate different trades like Binance, and even begin its own trade.
The network’s miners then check the hash to see if the unconfirmed block is valid. This is a time for celebration among crypto miners because the proof of work has finally been completed. From the user's perspective, this essentially implies that the sender's cryptocurrency transfer to the receiver has been confirmed and will be added to the blockchain as part of the block.