Dogecoin News: Dogetipbot Creator Josh Mohland Talks Twitch.tv
Dogecoin's humble origins would be all for nothing if it weren't for one innovation early-on that changed everything; the dogetipbot. In the booming Dogecoin subreddit, there was a call for a way to send dogecoins through the platform, similar to the ChangeTip service that Bitcoin utilizes. Finding the motivation to bring a similar service to their fellow Dogecoin users, Josh Mohland and David Dvorak took up the calling and created the dogetipbot. At first, it was a bumpy trip. So many dogecoins were being sent from person to person that the bot couldn't keep up. Foregoing many hours of....
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The creator of micropayments startup dogetipbot has announced he will open-source the payments tool, just over one year after raising $445,000 from Blackbird Ventures. In a post on his Facebook page obtained by CoinDesk, dogetipbot's Josh Mohland announced he will return the project to the bitcoin and dogecoin cryptocurrency communities, though the tone of his messages was at some times pointed when addressing its members. Mohland wrote: "I'll be open-sourcing dogetipbot and giving a friendly 'peace out' to cryptocurrency in general. Friendly is a nice way to put it, I think." Founded in....
Recently, the Dogecoin price has been in decline, in part due to the recent Moolah scandal (Moolah had a strong presence within the Dogecoin community). But the Dogecoin price reversed course on Monday, rising nearly 20% after Twitch announced that they now accept Dogecoin as payment for their video game streaming subscription service. Also Read: Dogecar Driver Josh Wise Places 28th in NASCAR Talladega Race. Dogecoin Price Rebounds after Twitch Announcement. Upon hearing the announcement, investors immediately began rocketing up the Dogecoin price on exchanges. The Dogecoin price-which had....
The team behind dogetipbot, the popular tipping tool for the alternative digital currency dogecoin, has raised nearly $500,000 in a seed funding round. The fundraising was led by Blackbird Ventures, a venture capital group based in Sydney, Australia. Additional investors, including angel investors Scott and Cyan Banister, also took part in the round. In total, $445,000 in new capital was raised for the project. Dogetipbot enables microtipping, allowing users of its service to pledge dogecoin tips that can then be redeemed for the currency. Users can tap dogetipbot when pledging money on....
Bitcoin might not be considered a currency in some circles and, right now, government agencies are starting to look at it as more of a speculative asset. Although BTC is highly divisible, it has yet to take off as a method of microtransactional payments - a fact not helped by bitcoin's potential to skyrocket in price due to hoarding by speculators. Dogecoin, however, has emerged as a favorite microtransaction method on reddit. In fact, most people get their first dogecoin via tipping on the community-oriented site. And that's all because of Dogetipbot. How it works. Dogetipbot interfaces....
To date, there's been a few documentaries on the topic of bitcoin, but we haven't seen a terrible lot on altcoins. Until now, of course. Award-winning director Adam Cornelius and This American Life contributor Chris Higgins have come together to create Coined, the self-proclaimed first feature-length documentary that hopes to take an in-depth look at alternative digital currencies. Filming for the project began in January 2014, and to date, both Higgins and Cornelius have shot nearly 20 hours of footage with a heavy focus on dogecoin. This footage includes on-camera interviews with....