Bitcoin Forum

You can on reddit and sites like that.

 ???

You can tip people that have an address in their profile or signature. A tipping mechanism built in would be a nice thing but with the apparently always forthcoming forum upgrade you probably won't see any major changes like that in the near future.

that would be really cool and breath new life into this forum

Would of course be a wonderful feature to have, but maybe more trouble than it's worth for the owner.

I agree... I think we should start crowdsourcing a new forum design, something created by the community opensource and decentralized.

Quick! to the meta section!

Well before sig campaigns that was what the personal sig is for
We can still see them if they are set in profile
But It might be a nice idea for the new forum software.
@segvec know the Theymos post didn't see his opinion on it one way or the other.

I was thinking about this too.  The site should have multisig for bounties too.  Forum admins or hero members could immediate and earn a small tip for that service.

Also implement a coloured coin or counter party asset for points.

+1000! Tipping on here would bring this place to life.  Huge part of getting people excited about it. Hope the devs read this =D

It could happen right now.... See my sig.

If people would give up their signature campaigns, everyone could place a link in their sig.  :P

Speaking of tips, I just put up the new coinbase tip button on my site. I'd love some support from the community to see if it works :-)

http://coinedbits.com/

reply with your impressions of the tip process. There are two options, 1) from coinbase account balance. 2) from bitcoin address.

Let me know what you think of the placement of the tip button as well. I'm worried people won't notice it.

According to theymos it is because it could turn the forum into a "money transmitter"

IMO it would also cause significant amounts of spam (begging spam) as the discussions would get cluttered with people asking for tips for their posts

I found the post in the Meta for anyone curious on Theymos position
He's neutral I guess but the question is its implementation are we Money Transmitting if we do this.
Under the new forum software thread

Surely having a third party one implemented wouldn't cause any trouble? Does reddit or any site who has a PayPal donate button have this concern?

Not to my knowledge H@C
I'm actually pretty confident that there would not be any issues but I can see why Theymos would err on the side of caution
Reddit and other sites do tips already so can't really see it being an issue here either.

If anything though the concern of sites with a paypal donate button is that paypal closes their account  ;D

(But think the case is a bit different between one site and a donation button and every user having one)

Kind of like comparing
https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

With a tip to all button.

Yeah, I think it's more of a cautionary measure and theymos is just thinking ahead and trying to cover the forums back for any potential issues. It could cause legal problems if the powers that be try use some bs of needing a licence for the money transmitting etc, but I'm sure we'd be ok with a third party if reditt is and I'd like to see this feature implemented if possible. 

Maybe considered for the next forum update

Yeah, like the posters above said...The "authorities" might come up with some strange rules in the future concerning tipping.
It may not make sense for the owner to go through all that trouble of creating a tipping system only to have it removed later on.

As has been said people post up addresses all the time on here, that's the beauty of Bitcoin, while a software might be convenient it's not very difficult to post up an address given it's only a collection of letters and numbers, even if all third party services for cryptocurrencies were to suddenly shut down we could still send each other money over the internet.

Yes, but it's not very convenient that way. How many people actually get tips on here? Very few. If there was a easy one or two click function to tip tiny amounts of bitcoin (one of the good features about these is sending without fees) then more people would likely do it.

Lolled so hard. Considering that bitcointalk hasn't been improved at all in the past years, I would be surprised if Thermos has any developments for the future in his mind.

Does anyone still send money to these crooks btw?

New forum software is being developed and should be active early next year with a beta test arriving soon. And no, nobody really donates anymore.

I think it's great idea & it's even better if we can made tip anonymous.

But, i think only few people will use it's feature.
And it's not easy to add feature like that.

Someone sent me a tip once just for my username  ;D but I think it was less than a dollar. Still, it was a nice gesture and appreciated.


I think it would be used quite a bit but just for small amounts. I'd like to see it as it is a nice reward for people and rewards good community members.

I think if people use it on reditt I can't see why they wouldn't use it here as well. I don't think it would be incredibly difficult to implement.

I think it would work better than a +1 here because rather than just saying +1 or thanks you could send a few satoshis. I'd like to see it added. I don't think it would cause any harm and would be a nice way of people getting some extra btc even if the amounts were tiny but they still all add up.

Many people displaying their bitcoin address in signatures or in their profile but there is no option to tip directly.

Looking fresh friend, hope yoiu get some donations. Did you have to do anything special to get in under for fixed navbar? No matter what I do, i cannot get the button under my fixed nav, z-index doesnt do anything =(

Here is a reply from theymos :

Have you tried clicking on the tip.me address as seen below? You click it, click "Tip directly with Bitcoin", a QR code comes up, the address comes up that you can copy and paste, or you can actually click on the address and Bitcoin Core will popup with the address already filled in. It seems pretty easy IMHO.

I just sent the OP a tip and can confirm that tipping is allowed.  ;D

https://blockchain.info/address/1Di4b12bXWUTyyvHG8DXHs2hXJxe5jwya

Develop a module for tips would be an overkill.

There are more important priorities right now

Actually you can tip on here.
There are so much people who put their address on their signature.

I suppose you can tip with sigs but that involves everyone having an account with the 3rd party tipping site.  Building it into the forum itself would be more convenient but means that they have to worry about storing every bodies wallet details and doing the processing themselves.  Probably not something I would want to commit to.  Are there any other options? 

As for being a "money transmitter".  We have seen how that is starting to be regulated.

Thanks.  Only just seen yr reply.  That was you was it?  Thought it was something else.   :-\

There any sites that notify you when a particular address goes up or down?

You can watch addresses with blockchain.info and you'll get a notification whenever someone sends or receives a payment.

you can just send them btc using bitcoin address in their profile, can be called tipping in the end

You can, the only element missing is the community karma you think you earn for tipping someone publicly. I just reconfigured my sig so you can click on the link when you have a desktop Bitcoin client installed.

More info about how that works: https://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html

well it would be nice if we could tip on forum

to bad that there isnt an option :(