ChangeTip Taps Blockchain Product Manager to Accelerate User Growth
Just one week after raising $3.5m from an impressive cast of VC firms, bitcoin micropayments startup ChangeTip has announced Dan Held will join its team as VP of product management. The acquisition will potentially provide ChangeTip with an experienced addition to its growing team, as Held most recently served as a product manager at bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain and formerly co-founded real-time news and market data app ZeroBlock, a startup that was purchased by Blockchain in an undisclosed deal in late 2013. In an interview regarding the move, Held expressed his intent to help grow....
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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....
Professor Emin Gün Sirer has responded to Changetip CEO Nick Sullivan's comments in a new blog post on privacy, profit and the future of the micropayments industry. "I feel like we're a charity getting yelled at." That was the initial, emotional reaction of founder and CEO Nick Sullivan to a wave of criticism launched yesterday against his micropayments startup, ChangeTip, a company that has emerged as one of bitcoin's most buzzed-about businesses for its efforts to promote bitcoin as a force for fun and social good. In just a few short weeks, ChangeTip has raised $3.5m in seed funding,....
Today's Reddit frontpage has several threads about a recent surge of popularity of Change Tip. One is titled "Changetip is causing bitcoin to go viral right now," and another was started by the ChangeTip team to say that they are working hard to keep up with the growing volume of tipping via their platform. ChangeTip wants to be "a Love button for the Internet," a fast and simple way to show appreciation with a micropayment in Bitcoin via the main social networks. You can send a tip to a Twitter user with a tweet that includes @changetip, the twitter-id of the user preceded by @, and the....
Brandon Chase from NewsBTC got a chance to chat with Victoria van Eyk, a community developer on board with ChangeTip. It became apparent that ChangeTip intends to keep most of their major developments under wrap for now, although a few suggestive hints about the near future were shared. NewsBTC is excited to follow the growth and expansion of ChangeTip as they evolve within the bitcoin economy. Chase: How was your time at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year in Vegas? Charles told me you guys have been busy. Were there any presentations, slideshows, or promotional....
Changetip is an awesome tool that is used to give money to anyone else via a variety of social media methods. The current mediums that Changetip supports are Github, Google Plus, Reddit, StockTwits, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube (Facebook coming soon), with a brief and concise explanation on how to tip to anyone you wish via each medium. You can even send and receive tips directly via the tipme page; an example is, http://your.name.tip.me, which is a much friendlier on the eyes way to provide someone your bitcoin address. One of the brilliant things about Changetip is the ease of which a....