ChangeTip Launches ChangeTip Wallet, a Decentralized Version of Its Social Tipping Service

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....

ChangeTip, a social media tipping service, has launched ChangeTip Wallet. a blockchain-powered, decentralized platform that provides a way to send and receive bitcoin online. ChangeTip Wallet combines the ease and convenience of ChangeTip with the ownership of private keys. ChangeTip, the flagship product of Silicon Valley, Calif.-based ChangeCoin, allows users to express appreciation and pay people via monetary tips. The tips are sent within the context of each social platform, allowing users to transact in the normal course of their Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Slack and other....

Social tipping service ChangeTip has announced a new "decentralised" wallet service, citing demand from the bitcoin community. Called ChangeTip Wallet, the service is said to let customers more easily use the platform's social media integrations to send funds, while allowing users better controls over their account and funds. For example, users of the wallet will hold their own private keys, and be able to initiate and approve payments using web-based and mobile apps. "We’re really excited to launch something that’s pure bitcoin," said Nick Sullivan, Founder and CEO of....

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....

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....