Tippin

Tippin

Send and Receive Bitcoin tips using Lightning Netwo

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An easy way to receive small tips and micro-payments across the web, using Lightning Network and Bitcoin.
This is the 3rd launch from Tippin. View more

Tippin

Tip anybody on Twitter with Bitcoin
Tippin Browser Extension 1.0 is here 🎉
You will be able to send Bitcoin tips to Twitter users.
Signup within seconds using just your Twitter account, download the extension (Chrome and Firefox), and you can start tipping!
*Get a limited 1000s welcome gift*
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Launch tags:
Web App•Chrome Extensions•Fintech
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What do you think? …

Amin Kasimov
Tippin is the best way to onboard new users to Bitcoin, congrats Sergio! Maybe you can create a common pool where bitcoiners can donate a certain amount of sats that will get divided for each new users (so you can keep giving sats for each new subscription). Do you have a public roadmap?
Sergio Abril
Maker
@aminkasimov Thank you so much! That pool thing is an amazing idea, and something to be considered; It could really help onboard new people to Bitcoin for a longer period of time! (No public roadmap yet, but hopefully there will be one soon)
Amin Kasimov
@eiprol Also if I'd like to tip someone who hasn't a Tippin account, you could generate a tweet for them and keep the sats on hold until they create an account (with an expiration date of course).
Sergio Abril
Maker
@aminkasimov That one is already being developed 😄 Thanks for such a great feedback!
Gary Arthur
@aminkasimov Hello Amin! Are you also an investor in interesting Cryptocurrency projects and business modules?
Sergio Abril
Maker
Tippin started back in December, as a personal side project to fully understand Lightning Network (a new technology being developed for Bitcoin, that allows faster and cheaper transactions, which is really interesting for micro payments). I wanted to make Bitcoin easier to use, and I thought that creating a tipping service linked to Twitter accounts would be a nice real use case for micro payments. At first, you needed to share your Tippin link manually in order to be tipped. You could also place a button on your web to receive tips, but it was still hard to use. In February I came up with the idea of creating a browser extension that could ease this process even more: by placing a little bolt icon in every tweet that, when clicked, would open a popup with a Lightning-Network-Bitcoin address for that user. That's when everything went crazy, and even @Jack, @Biz or @Kayvz signed up; they started sending tips to each other, and thousands of new users joined Tippin within days. But it was still hard to send a tip. If you didn't have a Lightning Network enabled Bitcoin wallet on your phone, in order to scan those popups, you couldn't do anything. That's why I changed a few things on this version 1.0: - Now you can send tips from your own balance. This means that if you have received tips, you can use that to tip other users from your own account. Nothing else is needed! - Also, you can now top up your Tippin account with a simple Bitcoin transaction and start tipping right away (using your balance) - Now you get a 1000 satoshi welcome gift for signing up (a fraction of Bitcoin). It's not much, but enough to start I hope you find it as exciting as I do 😄
Umberto Abbatantuono
I believe you should have opted for another cryptocurrency. Right now any user will end up spending more for a transaction fee rather than the tip. Are you running your own node and Lightning Network channel? I would like to see a documentation, some informations about how the bitcoins are stored and how withdrawals are processed. Best of luck with your project!
Sergio Abril
Maker
Thanks @youngorwell ! Luckily, with Lightning Network, transaction fees are almost zero, and that's the beauty of it: you can still use Bitcoin, which is the main and more adopted cryptocurrency (instead of any random new one), with low-to-none fees, and being able to send incredibly small amounts :) Tippin is running Lightning Network nodes, indeed, and accepts in/out Lightning Network transactions from/to any other Lightning Network wallet. It also accepts regular Bitcoin on-chain transaction (used for top ups), and soon, regular Bitcoin on-chain cash outs (used for bigger withdrawals).
Gary Arthur
@youngorwell Hello Umberto! Are you also an investor in interesting Cryptocurrency projects and business modules?