ProTip: Automatic Tipping for the People
There’s a new online-tipping application in town. The creators of ProTip Chris Ellis and Leo Campbell have initiated a startup that enables micro-tipping within a vast array of social media applications, websites, and WordPress platforms. ProTip is an open source Chrome plugin, with which users can tip domains they frequent and funds are stored in a....
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A number of companies have been looking into bitcoin micropayments as a means for funneling donations or tips online. After all, the cryptocurrency promises lower transactions costs compared to traditional payment methods such as credit cards or PayPal. Online tipping can be made to express appreciation for an artist's work on the internet, such as a good music album or digital art piece. The problem, however, is that users encounter friction when it comes to managing several individual bitcoin tipping methods. ProTip Bitcoin Micropayments. For ProTip developers Leo Campbell and Chris....
"This is about building tools that help facilitate conversations in markets." So says Chris Ellis of the ProTip micropayments project that is seeking to create peer-to-peer (P2P) mechanisms for people to support musicians, artists and other creators of digital media using bitcoin. ProTip is a web browser plug-in that functions as a specialized wallet, designed to issue automated bitcoin payments every week. Planned for an early May open-source release, ProTip creates a list of bitcoin wallet addresses pulled from websites most often visited by the user. Users can modify this list, set....
Recently, Facebook made headlines when they approved the Multicoin Tipping App and The Doge Tipping App. This was the first time Facebook had made any positive movement in favor of digital currency. I was able to talk with Alejandro Calballero, developer of the tipping apps, about how things are going, how things look and what's in store for the future of Facebook tipping. CCN. Now that the tipping apps are fully-operational with Facebook approval, how has the response been from the Facebook community? "Well, it's been similar to all apps being released every day. People looking for....
The Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization recently accepted its first Bitcoin donation. Bart and Brad Stephens of Stephens Investment Management donated 20 bitcoins to Tipping Point Community on February 6."Bitcoin is a disruptive innovation in the field of financial technology," Bart Stephens said. "Tipping Point is an innovator and a disruptive force in philanthropy. We have supported Tipping Point since its inception and we are excited by this pioneering gift. Both Tipping Point and Bitcoin share a bright future, bringing benefits to consumers and families in need....
Tipping internet users with cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin Cash, seems like a great way to spread adoption. The creator of one popular tipping tool is cooking up something brand new. Self-Serve Tipping It’s called Sharetip and I had the opportunity to try it. I tipped someone Bitcoin Cash on Medium and it was pretty smooth. Basically, it’s like a self-serve tipping tool that you can use on any platform. Imagine tipping on Youtube, Twitter, everywhere. And it is difficult to censor because the user notifies the creator themselves, rather than a bot. At news.Bitcoin.com,....