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Title: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza on January 21, 2013, 05:36:54 AM For those of you who weren't around for it, or never tried it, witcoin was a social news site (like reddit) based on micro payments using bitcoins. I think upvoting was called "tipping" and it gave the author of the post a little money. I don't remember the specifics, but I thought it was a cool idea. You could earn a little money if you had something cool to share, and you could give a little away if someone else showed you something cool.
It died a long time ago (and I never got my 2 BTC I had left in my account back,) and I don't think anything has appeared to replace it. Is there anything else like that that I haven't noticed? Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: Xenland on January 21, 2013, 05:51:56 AM I loved that site, it was the only thing (at the time) that kept me connected to Bitcoin (even though withdrawals were disabled and I couldn't cash out).
I could remake that site in about week fully completed with a great theme for a few BTC, Who wants to throw in to the fund? Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: theymos on January 21, 2013, 06:45:00 AM I was just thinking about witcoin. It was a great idea. Profitable, too, IIRC. I was the one who came up with the "pyramid scheme" payment idea that witcoin had, so I "received" a small percentage of site profits (lost when witcoin went down, though).
The witcoin code was at one time available on a git repository that several people had access to. I had access, but I unfortunately don't have the files anymore. You could ask tcatm or ducki2p. mizery wrote an amazing amount of pretty high-quality code for witcoin. It's so sad how he lost his sanity... At his level of productivity, he could have been one of the richest bitcoiners around. Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: FlipPro on January 21, 2013, 03:30:16 PM I'll just leave this here...
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/uptweet-social-media-and-bitcoin-meet-again/ Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza on January 21, 2013, 04:40:30 PM I'll just leave this here... Great jorb, FlipPro! Joining now!http://bitcoinmagazine.com/uptweet-social-media-and-bitcoin-meet-again/ Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: FlipPro on January 21, 2013, 04:44:55 PM I'll just leave this here... Great jorb, FlipPro! Joining now!http://bitcoinmagazine.com/uptweet-social-media-and-bitcoin-meet-again/ Post some cool stuff & I'll UpTweet you to 100k+ followers so you can start earning today! http://twitter.com/flippro Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: fm1234 on January 21, 2013, 05:44:43 PM UpTweet indeed looks like a better approach than Witcoin, with the distributed pay vs. per-post tipping. Tipping is a time-honoured tradition even by internet standards, but it depends on too many variables, such as people who would otherwise be happy to tip a post but happen to not have the BTC handy, don't have time to do the spend or upload to a Witcoin wallet etc.
Frank Title: Re: Why hasn't witcoin been replaced yet? Post by: FlipPro on January 21, 2013, 06:37:54 PM UpTweet indeed looks like a better approach than Witcoin, with the distributed pay vs. per-post tipping. Tipping is a time-honoured tradition even by internet standards, but it depends on too many variables, such as people who would otherwise be happy to tip a post but happen to not have the BTC handy, don't have time to do the spend or upload to a Witcoin wallet etc. Thanks for the thoughtful post Frank.Frank Give us some time, we will have Tweet tipping soon :)... Right now our biggest priority is the mobile application. In the meantime I agree with you, we have a very innovative (dare, I say) radical platform, that feeds good posts, and shuns bad ones automatically (or subconsciously if you will). We are excited and we hope you are to! Kind Regards |