Reddit.com: First Bitcoin-Tipping-Bot testruns!

[Spekulatius]

Check it out: http://www.reddit.com/r/test/comments/11iby2/bitcointip_tip_redditors_with_bitcoin/

Also check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal
Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin!  

Disclaimer: The tipping bot is an independent project by bitcointalk.org user SuperP (NerdfighterSean on reddit). It is not officially endorsed by reddit.com. Reddit.com is a mostly open scource platform.


-edit- Update from the developer:

UPDATE on the bot:

I'm in the process of rewriting the bot in python to take advantage of the Python Reddit API Wrapper (praw) and make retrieving user comments and messages faster.  Parts of the code need updated now that a bitcoind server is being used instead of the blockchain.info API.  I'm new to Github and I'm not well versed in python, so please bear with me.  Every line there should be treated as pseudocode for now since it's a mess between PHP -> Python.  If you would like to help out, here it is on Github: https://github.com/NerdfighterSean/bitcointip

Some people suggested a subreddit specifically for the bot, so I've made that if you want to post stuff there: http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip

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[jimbobway]

Holy crap.  This is huge news!

[Raoul Duke]

Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! 

http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/11ja6g/from_now_on_money_you_receive_will_be_temporarily/

[–]Puupsfred 2 pontos 41 minutos atrás

+bitcointip 0.01 BTC

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[–]bitcointip 2 pontos 27 minutos atrás

Transaction Verified!

Puupsfred --> 0.01 BTC (~$0.12 USD) --> Sufficio

About Bitcointip


[–]Sufficio 1 ponto 11 minutos atrás

I'm so confused right now.

LMAO

[giszmo]

This is actually a very very cool idea. Is this

• a reddit product?
• a user bot with the blessing of reddit?
• an independent bot like anybody could write a bot?

Who are the people behind this bot? What is their measure in case reddit cancels this? Whom can I slap if the hot wallet password "accidentally" gets too accessible?

Edit: This should just as well work on twitter!?! and if done by the same people, transactions between twitter and reddit could be free.

Edit: So for $5 I may get my money back in case the service is terminated?
With my money in my own priv key the service makes a more reliable impression to the whereabouts of my money (no fractional reserve) but it's ultimately less secure (100% hot wallet) and costs fees to send between reddit users.

Conclusion: I am not at all convinced.

[bbit]

lol so cool some of the people are huh HAHAHA

[Deafboy]

This should just as well work on twitter!?!

Yes, it is: https://secure.btctip.com:9000/

[Gabi]

Epic 

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

And so it begins.

[LightRider]

I still don't know what the hell a reddit is, but this looks like a good development.

[finway]

Reddit.com's bot or btctip.com's bot ?

[Dansker]

Now we just need to have reddit integrate it into the site itself, so we can have a button that does this.

[Sukrim]

Yeah, it doesn't look like an official reddit.com project to me... however the topic here suggests it is. Maybe change that.

[Spekulatius]

Yeah, it doesn't look like an official reddit.com project to me... however the topic here suggests it is. Maybe change that.

Any official statement from either reddit or btctip.com on the matter?

[Akka]

Also check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal
Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin!  

If that works out, thats exactly what I'm going to do.

Give 2BTC to tip 200 Paypal victims? I will have so much fun.

... Have to prepare some mocking messages I send with the tip, suggestions welcome.

[Arto]

Just redeemed my existing Reddit karma with the bot for a grand total of ฿0.00202948

Note that it looks like the bot can currently take a while to respond to PMs. It took 15 minutes for it to respond to a "HELP" message, for instance.

[Spekulatius]

Also check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal
Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! 

If that works out, thats exactly what I'm going to do.

Give 2BTC to tip 200 Paypal victims? I will have so much fun on this day.

... Have to prepare some mocking messages I send with the tip, suggestions welcome.

[giszmo]

Note that it looks like the bot can currently take a while to respond to PMs. It took 15 minutes for it to respond to a "HELP" message, for instance.

Haha lol
Maybe the ""bot"" is in early development and responses are done manually by some non-programmer to gauge interest in a real bot?

[paraipan]

This is great, will check it out right now

*heading to reddit*

[farlack]

Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! 

http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/11ja6g/from_now_on_money_you_receive_will_be_temporarily/

[–]Puupsfred 2 pontos 41 minutos atrás

+bitcointip 0.01 BTC

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[–]bitcointip 2 pontos 27 minutos atrás

Transaction Verified!

Puupsfred --> 0.01 BTC (~$0.12 USD) --> Sufficio

About Bitcointip


[–]Sufficio 1 ponto 11 minutos atrás

I'm so confused right now.

LMAO

Awesome, will get some btc notice I think.

[Atlas]

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11qoyg/morgan_stanley_banker_william_bryon_jennings_who/c6os4pn?context=3

That escalated quickly.