gittip reaches out for supporting Bitcoin

[Chris Weber]

The tipping site wants to have support by vendors. Just in case someone here who did not know about and has the position to enable them with their plans...

From: Chad Whitacre
Date: 2013/2/22
Subject: Re: gittip and bitcoin
To: Chris Weber

[...]
Bitcoin is definitely on the radar, I was chatting with someone about it last night. Here are the two relevant tickets:

  "pay in with bitcoin"
  https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/14

  "pay out with bitcoin"
  https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/310

You can catch up on our status there. Basically, there are some hurdles to overcome on each side, and we are looking for one or more vendors to partner with.


chad
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Chad Whitacre, Founder, Gittip
https://www.gittip.com/
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013, Chris Weber wrote:
[...]
> Is it already possible or planned to use bitcoin with the social structure of gittip?
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[gweedo]

I just looked it over, Bitpay and coinbase are on, I faith one of them can help him out.

I was calling for gittip to do bitcoins so long ago and was talking to the guy, he wasn't sold on them but I think it took that fraud case and laundering funds thru his service to see the light side Which is sad that could have been all avoid.

[ikbrunel]

Failure mode: IRS nails all US citizens playing in the tipping space for failure to issue 1099-K's.