[ON HOLD - 300 BTC] Make a bitcointalk forum plugin to allow tipping via BTC

[cedivad]

Can I stole your job? You know, 300 btc... Intriguing

[Matthew N. Wright]

Doesn't blockchain.info have a plugin for Chrome that works directly with your bitcoin client to show balances etc (importing wallets) through the API? Why couldn't that just be used to have it send funds when clicked?

[whiskers75]

Well, you're talking to the creator of whiskers75/IRC-bot...

I'll have a look and see if I can do this. I have experience using BTC with node.js and IRC.

[evoorhees]

Seems this thread got resurrected. I'm going to put this project on hold. There was one party who seems excellent for the job but a certain moderator, whose help I needed, seems to have lost interested in assisting with this. Will try to resurrect at some point.

[whiskers75]

I'm willing to code a backend, but someone will need to make a frontend for SMF. Maybe split the bounty?
I code in node.js, so your frontend will need to be (node.)js.

[phelix]

Seems this thread got resurrected. I'm going to put this project on hold. There was one party who seems excellent for the job but a certain moderator, whose help I needed, seems to have lost interested in assisting with this. Will try to resurrect at some point.

Good decision imho. There are better things to subsidize. Also bounties should have $ limits.

I have seen other projects that were done for bounties only and abandoned afterwards. This seems a candidate for this.

[iElectric]

I run free-to-use website for such bounties: https://fundhub.org/

[Mosper]

If anything you could set it up so that there is a wallet of the massive funds held for the forum's development and when someone tips the btc goes to that wallet and that wallet automatically sends an equal amount of btc to the address the person chose and linked to their account in their profile settings.

Just a simple program that understands how to receive BTC, read the intended address, and then send BTC to that address.

[thezerg]

Its pretty embarrassing that the bitcoin board doesn't have a tipbot.  We should make a generic tipbot backend that can be taught via plugins to scan different web formats --SMF, facebook, whatever.  So it is completely unconnected to the site itself.

And I'm not sure how "binding" people take bounty announcements but I would also vote to let erik off the "hook" WRT the original bounty amount.  Its been a long time since the OP and there is lost opportunity if the project is not done in a timely fashion.  And of course BTC has exploded 

[paraipan]

If you guys think seriously doing this please consider the bounty still open on Rugatu.

http://www.rugatu.com/questions/3575/can-you-make-a-bitcoin-smf-mod

[InspiredEye]

If you're still looking for someone to do any bounty related work, feel free to PM me.  I run the NerdTribe.com hacker house, we love projects like this & can usually crush them relatively quickly, if the bounty is right