ChangeTip Raises $3.5 Million for Bitcoin Micropayments Service
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....
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Dan Held, the former Blockchain.info Product Manager and Co-Founder of ZeroBlock, is joining ChangeTip as their new VP of Product. ChangeTip is currently on a hiring spree after receiving a seed round of $3.5 million in funding. ChangeTip's seed round was led by Pantera Capital but also included big names such as 500 Startups, Bold Start Ventures, and CryptoCurrency Partners. ChangeTip previously had an angel round of $750,000. Also read: Is ChangeTip the Viral Bitcoin Killer App? From ZeroBlock to Blockchain.info to ChangeTip. Dan Held first entered the Bitcoin industry when starting....
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....
The micropayments startup ChangeTip team is making great efforts to help Bitcoin adoption. The latest rumors confirm that the team has already integrated the changeTip app with the internationally known Blog commenting hosting service Disqus. With this new integration, the ChangeTip app will be engaging virtually everyone that write read and contributes online, raising bitcoin awareness throughout participants in this space. The news came when Victoria van Eyk, the ChangeTip community developer, sent a tip to a commenter in an article with the Disqus commenting service enabled. She tipped....
When it comes down to bitcoin tipping, charities and micropayments, ChangeTip is the industry leader. Recently, they announced the addition of a new feature known as proximity payments to their mobile app. For those who do not know, the ChangeTip mobile app allows anyone in possession of a Twitter of Facebook account to send and receive money from others internationally without any fees whatsoever. Based on this, ChangeTip enables users to carry out P2P payments in the form of tips, donations and gifts, both in USD and bitcoin. Users are free to add money to a ChangeTip wallet, where they....
Bitcoin tipping platform ChangeTip has announced that it is expanding its service to YouTube, Tumblr and Google+. The platform already supports bitcoin micropayments on social media sites like Twitter, Reddit and StockTwits - a popular network for traders and investors. Dubbed a 'love button for the Internet', ChangeTip lets users gift friends and content providers with small amounts of bitcoin as a more tangible alternative to the usual 'like' or '+1'. The ChangeTip team is hoping to leverage the low cost of bitcoin transactions and enable the use of micro-tips for all sorts of content....