Coinbase Axes Tipping Feature Following ChangeTip's Success
Bitcoin services provider Coinbase has announced it is shutting down its tip button effective 1st April, citing the traction of competitor ChangeTip. Perhaps most notably, Coinbase will be directing the 10,000 users its service has enrolled to ChangeTip in a bid of industry collaboration. The company's blog post reads: "ChangeTip is an excellent example of a company which uses our APIs, and we'd like to support them instead of competing with them." Launched in November, Coinbase's feature was enabled by blogs written by television personality Adam Carolla and bitcoin VC Fred Wilson. At the....
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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....
Bitcoin wallet and exchange Coinbase today announced its plan to discontinue its Bitcoin tipping services effective April 1st this year. As stated in the company's blog, the reason behind their sudden withdrawal from micro tipping business is ChangeTip - another bitcoin tipping service which has been constantly ruling the market. In Coinbase's own words, the latter has got "some better traction and done a great job at pushing the tipping ecosystem forward." Coinbase further announced that it would encourage its existing tipping customers base - around 10,000 individuals - to move to....
Bitcoin tipping continues to be a popular use case for the famous cryptocurrency. And with the launch of its new “One Time Tip” feature, social bitcoin tipping startup, ChangeTip is looking to make sending value to anyone on the internet even easier. Before the launch of “One Time Tip,” users of ChangeTip could only tip others in bitcoin via their linked social media accounts, including Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Google Plus, GitHub and Slack. Now, with its new bitcoin tipping feature, users can send value directly by email or SMS/text/iMessage using a one-time link.
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....
ChangeTip, a bitcoin micropayment startup, announced the release of a new feature: the One Time Tip Link. This new feature allows users to send bitcoins over email, chat messages, Skype, SMS/text. Users can log into their ChangeTip account, navigate to "One Time Tip" and there they can choose the amount of money they want to tip. A link will be created, and the first person to click on the link gets the tip. Currently, ChangeTip exists on the social media networks people use every day, such as Twitter, Reddit, Google+, Youtube, Tumblr and others. It is a fast and simple way to show....