Direct Relief and ChangeTip Providing Vitamins For Women In Need
Direct Relief is a charity organization based out of California. The nonprofit is recognized by the IRS and has been operating since 2001. After the Nepal earthquake Direct Relief was persuaded by redditors to accept Bitcoin. The service has and learned quite a bit since they started. From saving money in fees to instant transactions, Direct Relief knows....
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One of the appealing factors in using bitcoin for transactions is the lower fees associated with it, compared to other forms of payment like credit cards or online transfers. This is why ChangeTip has been using the cryptocurrency for donations and has recently teamed up with charitable institution Direct Relief in running a fundraising campaign for prenatal care. ChangeTip was founded by Nick Sullivan with the goal of a creating truly global economy by reducing economic disparity through the efficient and open transfer of funds. This can be done through bitcoin, which minimizes....
For all the ladies out there, Sunday, March 8th is going to be a very special day. For over 100 years, the world has celebrated International Women's Day, and now the Bitcoin community will celebrate the first annual Bitcoin Women's Day. This will shine a light on the integration and accomplishments of women within the Bitcoin community, and also to spurn the growth for women to begin using Bitcoin more. A recent poll done by 99bitcoins.com shows that less than 8% of Bitcoin users are female, so there is plenty of room for growth and improvement with the largest demographic in the world.....
Today's Reddit frontpage has several threads about a recent surge of popularity of Change Tip. One is titled "Changetip is causing bitcoin to go viral right now," and another was started by the ChangeTip team to say that they are working hard to keep up with the growing volume of tipping via their platform. ChangeTip wants to be "a Love button for the Internet," a fast and simple way to show appreciation with a micropayment in Bitcoin via the main social networks. You can send a tip to a Twitter user with a tweet that includes @changetip, the twitter-id of the user preceded by @, and the....
Users of the popular bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip can now top up their accounts via purchases with Visa and MasterCard credit cards. With the addition of the new payment option, ChangeTip users can add to their tipping wallet via credit card, bitcoin or a direct ACH transaction. Purchases can be made with any card running on the Visa or MasterCard network, however, American Express and Discover are not available. Additional bank fees apply for purchases. ChangeTip head of community Victoria van Eyk indicated that, while users could previously use credit cards to make bitcoin purchases....
Bitcoin services provider Coinbase has announced it is shutting down its tip button effective 1st April, citing the traction of competitor ChangeTip. Perhaps most notably, Coinbase will be directing the 10,000 users its service has enrolled to ChangeTip in a bid of industry collaboration. The company's blog post reads: "ChangeTip is an excellent example of a company which uses our APIs, and we'd like to support them instead of competing with them." Launched in November, Coinbase's feature was enabled by blogs written by television personality Adam Carolla and bitcoin VC Fred Wilson. At the....