Bitcoin Forum

This is official thread for support and development of ALTcointip, an open-source, highly configurable Reddit cryptocurrency tipping bot written in Python.

Some of the features:

* Support for any number of cryptocoins
    * BTC, LTC, NMC, PPC, XPM, MEC, FTC, DVC, TRC, and NVC are pre-configured
* Support for conversion to any number of fiat currencies
    * USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY, and RUB are pre-configured
* Support for any number of cryptocoin exchange APIs
    * Seven pre-configured exchanges included
* Detailed per-user, per-subreddit, and per-coin statistics
* User ability of redeeming karma for coins
* Email notifications when bot crashes or runs into an issue


Stable releases:

• https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip/releases

Development branch:

• https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip/tree/develop

Documentation:

• Beginner-friendly introduction (http://www.reddit.com/r/ALTcointip/comments/1mma7w/welcome_to_altcointip/)
• Detailed usage document (http://www.reddit.com/r/ALTcointip/wiki/index)
• Quick-start setup document (https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip/blob/master/README.md)
• Opscode Chef cookbook (automated setup) (https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip-chef)

Screenshots

User info page:

https://i.imgur.com/QXJAlxZ.png


System requirements:

Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc), Python 2.7.5 or greater (not tested with Python 3), Python modules (jinja2, pifkoin, praw, sqlalchemy, yaml), MySQL 5.5 or greater, at least one coin daemon that provides Bitcoin-compatible API.


Active Instances

• /u/ALTcointip (http://www.reddit.com/user/altcointip): BTC, LTC, PPC, NMC, XPM, MEC
• /u/YACointip (http://www.reddit.com/user/yacointip): YAC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196196.0)
• /u/Frankotip (http://www.reddit.com/user/frankotip): FRK (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202417.0)

Reserved.

Release v0.2.1

This release contains a few internal improvements as well as new feature.

New features:

* Ability for users to redeem their karma using configurable conversion rate

Improvements:

* Reddit exception handling (reduces Reddit's downtime impact on bot)
* Stats pages formatting and generation
* Added cryptocurrency symbol in tip confirmations

Release v0.2.2

This release contains improvements to the redeem karma functions.

Improvements:

* Karma calculation now starts with fiat (money) rather than coins
* Minimum karma is enforced to prevent fake accounts from claiming karma
* Multiple-coin karma redeem option (one per coin)

Release v0.2.3

This release contains a new feature as well as an improvement.

* New features:
  * Ability to send email notifications when bot stops working
* Improvements:
  * Added 3 more pre-defined cryptocoin exchanges
  * Improved layout of exchanges.yml config file

Release v0.2.4

* New features:
  * Ability to disable specific type of action through config file
* Improvements
  * Ignoring mod-generated messages
  * Updating code to reflect new var names

Release v0.2.5

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

* Improvements
  * Better stats page formatting
  * Better Reddit exception handling
  * Extra fiat added - CNY
  * Amount regex recognizes more digits

Release v0.2.6

This release contains new features.

* New features:
  * +rates command, returns coin exchange rates
  * Support for Cryptsy exchange

Release v0.2.7

This release contains new features and improvements.

* New features:
   * Coin added: Megacoin (MEC)
   * New command implemented: +history
 * Improvements
   * More compact +rates and stats formatting
   * Better coin daemon error handling and retry

Release v0.2.8

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

* Improvements:
  * Better stats formatting and new stats queries
  * New stats page: complete list of successful tips
  * Updated list of coin explorers
* Bug fixes
  * Checking for nonexistent destination user
  * Checking for comment that's immediately deleted
  * Fixing username format logic

Could you add USDe to this tipbot?