Bitcoin Tipping App ChangeTip Closes Its Doors
Popular Bitcoin tipping platform ChangeTip has announced the service is shutting down operations. The company has been deliberating ways to continue the service, but unfortunately, in the end, it said the only option was to shut down. ChangeTip Will Shut Down Operations. Founded in December of 2014 by Nick Sullivan, the company ChangeCoin created its....
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Months after its core development team was acqui-hired by accommodations startup Airbnb, bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip is closing its doors. Nick Sullivan took to Reddit today to announce the closure. He said that the tipping service will be officially turned off at the end of November, though its website will remain open “for a number of months” in order to allow for user withdrawals. The closure comes less than two years after the startup, once a popular tool for sending bitcoin tips via social media, raised $3.5m in a seed funding round. ChangeTip sought to bring bitcoin tipping to....
Potentially bitcoin's first killer app, tipping has been a hot topic of discussion lately. Earlier this week Bitcoin investment firm Pantera Capital announced its participation in the Series A funding round for social tipping startup, ChangeTip. And just last month Coinbase launched its bitcoin tipping button to allow anyone to accept micropayments anywhere on the web. Despite it being early days in the world of bitcoin tipping, it seems as though early adopters have their personal preference when it comes to which service they want to use to spread value across the internet. A discussion....
The well known, internet-based Bitcoin Tipping system, ChangeTip. has just announced in its official Blog that it is now possible to send Bitcoin through Facebook. The ChangeTip team is absolutely excited with the new feature and feels that this is great news for the Bitcoin community. The ChangeTip team states that, thanks to popular demand, Facebook has enabled their social tipping app, so Facebook users will now be able to send tips for their favorite content through the social network. ChangeTip’s vision is based on online generosity through tipping. To realize that vision, they built....
Bitcoin wallet and exchange Coinbase today announced its plan to discontinue its Bitcoin tipping services effective April 1st this year. As stated in the company's blog, the reason behind their sudden withdrawal from micro tipping business is ChangeTip - another bitcoin tipping service which has been constantly ruling the market. In Coinbase's own words, the latter has got "some better traction and done a great job at pushing the tipping ecosystem forward." Coinbase further announced that it would encourage its existing tipping customers base - around 10,000 individuals - to move to....
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 4, 2014 - At Money2020 today, San Francisco-based micropayments leader ChangeTip announced their new Tip. Me tipping platform. Tip. Me enables users to tip other users instantly, for free, and is seamlessly integrated into their current ChangeTip product. Until today, ChangeTip has leveraged popular social networks like Reddit and Twitter; with the introduction of Tip. Me, they are taking tipping to a whole new level. The process is simple: users login using any of their online profiles; next, they choose a unique tip.me domain; and then they can accept tips whenever,....