Topic: Blowing up today on Reddit - go upvote!! - page 2. (Read 5462 times)

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Nice post, I also agree about the update needed to the weusecoin video.

Indeed, mining should not be part of a discussion about bitcoin, and if asked about, you got it with this response : "New coins are created by the network and given to those who contribute to the auditing/transaction verification process."


 I'll translate to french and use it

The WordPress plugin would be installed on each individual blog but report back with the server for the tipbot. Then the plugin could ping the tipbot when a tip needs to be verified and processed. The tipbots would also be able to monitor the sites (but don't eat too much bandwidth!) where the plugin is installed. Perhaps have a blogger API key for installation.

This would solve a need that bloggers have with a way to interact with and reward the community that develops around their blog. Good highly quality comments that are rewarded with bitcoins, by either the blogger or other commenters, would be an excellent way to get bitcoins into that community. Then the blogger could sell products, like ebooks, for bitcoins and spend bitcoins on hosting, etc. Plus, it would help bloggers counteract all the trolls from the Air Force's blog commenter program.

What I envision is a WordPress plugin that works kind of like Gravatar or Disquis where a commenter can create an identity in one place but have it show up in multiple places. 'Facebook comments' has tried to do this but most bloggers do not want their nasty code intertwining with their website. Comment sections often have great content but it is just really hard to find and weed through all the trash. People could make their tipping history public and then others could see where the insightful comments are.

Please lead by example. Please list all the addresses you donated to on that thread or people that you made an effort to send btc to.

Thanks 

I agree w/ what evoorhees said about it. It's only a matter of time where all these services get utilized!

I love BTCTip! It hasn't been marketed enough, but it's absolutely as awesome as the reddit bot... maybe moreso since Twitter is a much larger world.

It's amazing how many people don't get it. What is funny is they are seeing the future of how everything is going to go right in front of them. What is there not to like about Bitcoin?

edit:Also, good jobs to the guys who are putting up the good fight !

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who know about btctip.com. Tipping service for Twitter. It's simmilar to btctip bot on reddit.

With or without the help of the hosting site?  I was considering this project a few months ago.  The basic strategy:

create a website that lets you deposit small amounts of bitcoin or fiat (should be fraud resistant due to deposit limits).  And an automated way to create a tip jar.
users puts some btc in the tip jar and then posts a message on the blog, youtube vid, etc.  The tip jar can do this automatically for the top 5 sites (youtube,etc).

Problems:

1. Verification of the claimant (how to prove that the person claiming the tip jar actually did post the blog or upload the video)
2. Creating trust in the hosting website (i.e. your service), since it is holding the bitcoin.
3. May bend TOS for sites like youtube and/or be considered spam


Tips would also be a great way to encourage bug fixes in FOSS software.

This is a great idea to expand the tips to YouTube.

Also, how can we integrate it with blog comments? That could become a particularly explosive niche. Perhaps a WordPress plugin that connects to the tip bot that allows it to interact with the blog?

I don't see why people should know about the mining aspect, most of them don't know how ACH processes transactions, so why should bitcoin be any different?

Then they see you have lied to them and don't trust anything you have to say later, there are very few ways to send BTC that don't cost money and plenty of middlemen getting their cut along the way.

Fine, now I have one. Now you have no excuse not to agree with me! AGREE WITH ME!

The concept of mining makes the folk suspicious. Creating money out of thin air? Blasphemy! It is a very delicate subject. Some points I feel can help give the right idea:

- Introduce the idea that in a fiat currency the state creates currency units, in Bitcoin this power is simply shifted over to the people, an analogy for which would be gold and the way anyone can theoretically mine it.
- Miners are like the banks and they process the transactions, they do so by solving randomly generated mathematical puzzles which is a lot like a lottery.
- There is no central body so all the participants have to reach an agreement in processing transactions.

It's important to use analogies but at the end of the day mining is best left unmentioned.

We have avatars. 

I'm gonna admit, I'm a little butthurt that you didn't include me in the list even though I brought it up first


It is probably the single greatest thing to happen to BTC adoption rates.  Now, if we could find a way to do this for youtube we'd be set.

I have been tipping people like crazy on reddit over the past 4-5 days. People love it -- even those who have no idea what bitcoins are.

A typical reaction (from the /r/programming subreddit) is: "what the f*ck? you can tip people on reddit now?! AWESOME"

"Transaction validation" would work fine. When people express concern over the "transaction validators" being the only way coins are created, simply explain that they are providing a service that is critical to the function of the Bitcoin network, and that it's actually very difficult to make any sort of profit on validating transactions (mining) anymore.

Good point.  You should update this.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Public_relations

I agree with evorhees, sgtspike and technomage that we should not talk about mining unless asked about it.

However I don't think one needs to be highly motivated or knowledgeable in order to be able to mine sucessfully. That's just not true: just order some hardware and off you go, no soldering required. Thing is: the risk of not making a profit is very high nowadays. It's not something the average joe should be recommended to just jump in for the sake of his financial health. That has the potential to turn him away from bitcoin. I think, however that mining should be encouraged to be as distributed as possible in the long run for the sake of avoiding monopolies and/or cartels, but this is a less important issue than making bitcoin accessible to newbs.

Mining is not "reserved" for anyone

Fully agree. When I introduce people to Bitcoin I completely avoid the mining topic (it is not relevant for beginners).


I hope that the WeUseCoins video will be updated. The video is the best introduction into Bitcoin I am aware of, but the mining part is confusing.