Interview With ProTip's Chris Ellis On Saving Media
As I made my way through the brain washing institution known as The United States public school system, teachers commended my writing, but also felt the need to point out that the publishing industry was dying. They told me to put aside whatever talent I had and work in a different, presumably soul crushing career. They said that the internet was killing newspapers and they couldn't imagine a world where someone got paid writing on the internet. In retrospect, their warnings sound silly. The internet did indeed kill off newspapers, or at least, pushed them to the brink of irrelevancy, but....
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"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....
I have been following Mr. Chris Ellis who is based in London on Twitter and the World Crypto Network for quite some time now, and am fascinated by his viewpoints and projects in regards to cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain. The World Crypto Network is an open source independent media organisation which hosts shows on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies talking about global current events from the perspective of the rising digital economy. Mr. Ellis first got my attention on one his episodes about global ID and World Citizenship and the use of the Bitcoin Blockchain for developing this on. They....
On December 5th, 2015, Crypto-developer Chris Ellis dedicated 12 hours to building full Bitcoin nodes using all open source materials. These videos, presented by the World Crypto Network called, “Not (Just) Made In China,” show Ellis creating some full nodes during the broadcast for his ProTip fundraiser. The funding effort located on StartJOIN will help....
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....
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....