How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit

Pretty cool, but it&#x27;s been possible to tip users bitcoins on Reddit for a while now. (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcointip</a>). Although this has the advantage of being fee less, since it can stay within Coinbase and avoid the blockchain.

There&#x27;s been a bot facilitating something similar for a while now. You can just post a comment, something like &quot;+&#x2F;u&#x2F;bitcointip @RedditUsername $1&quot;. I haven&#x27;t used it, but it seems pretty neat. Documentation: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip/comments/13iykn/bitcointip_documentation/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcointip&#x2F;comments&#x2F;13iykn&#x2F;bitcointi...</a>

What do people think about a similar service for HackerNews&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;Facebook? You need a way to be able to send the person a private message (to receive the first claim URL). But other than it is pretty simple to set up.<p>It uses our Token api call <a href="https://coinbase.com/api/doc/1.0/tokens.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinbase.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;doc&#x2F;1.0&#x2F;tokens.html</a> and a browser extension. Here is the one we wrote for reddit <a href="https://github.com/coinbase/bittip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coinbase&#x2F;bittip</a>

<a href="http://buttcoin.org/the-reddit-bitcoin-tipping-bot-is-the-worst-way-to-promote-bitcoin-and-the-shills-wont-shut-up-about-it" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttcoin.org&#x2F;the-reddit-bitcoin-tipping-bot-is-the-wo...</a>

There are two immediate question that jump to mind when I see this. What is the percentage of Reddit users that also use Bitcoin (or Coinbase for that matter)? And for those non-users, what is the minimum tip value that would entice them to actually go through the process of claiming the Bitcoins?

If you really love reddit you won&#x27;t do this, because it eats into reddit&#x27;s own tipping product which means taking away revenue from reddit.

I think tipping people in Bitcoin is an absolutely awesome way to introduce new people to Bitcoin. I think it would work well on HN, but I imagine not everyone would be a fan.

I purchased heytip.me earlier this year to make something like this, needless to say I haven&#x27;t had time to work on it.

is it capped on low amounts? if it&#x27;s not people might start hacking reddit accounts