Social Bitcoin Tipping Service ChangeTip Raises $3.5 Million
San Francisco based social media tipping service announced they raised $3.5 million in their seed round of funding from various seasoned bitcoin venture capitalists. Bitcoin focused venture capital firm, Pantera Capital led ChangeTip’s seed round but other prominent investors included 500 Startups, Crypto-Currency Partners, and Bold Start Ventures. The nearly one year old company will use the capital to further develop their platform and product, and grow its user base. A few weeks ago the company announced its user base had grown to 30,000 users but that number has already increased to....
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San Francisco based Bitcoin microtransactions startup ChangeTip announced the launch of a new service called ChangeTip Wallet today. ChangeTip Wallet is being launched as a decentralized version of ChangeTip’s social tipping service ChangeTip. ChangeTip Wallet will offer the same services as ChangeTip but it is decentralized and has fewer restrictions in terms of account size, transaction amount and user locations. Users will also be able to manage their own private keys. Founded by Nick Sullivan in 2013, ChangeTip enables users to send micropayments or “tips” in Bitcoin across various....
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 social tipping service ChangeTip has just announced the company’s new product the ChangeTip Wallet. The Silicon Valley business wants to make the digital currency easier to use and more accessible to everyday people. ChangeTip says the wallet service is a decentralized version of its centralized tipping application. Users can send and receive....
Bitcoin social tipping startup ChangeTip has announced $3.5m in seed funding, drawing support from a variety of bitcoin-focused investment funds and entrepreneurs. The seed round was led by Pantera Capital, according to the San Francisco-based startup. Other participants in the round included500 Startups, Boldstart Ventures, CryptoCurrency Partners and Idealab. ChangeTip intends to use the funds to build out its infrastructure as well as redouble efforts to continue expanding its user base. Several weeks ago, the popular microtipping service revealed that it had brought in more than 30,000....
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....