Topic: [ON HOLD - 300 BTC] Make a bitcointalk forum plugin to allow tipping via BTC (Read 8317 times)
April 02, 2013, 10:48:12 PM
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
April 01, 2013, 09:49:33 PM
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
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/3575/can-you-make-a-bitcoin-smf-mod
April 01, 2013, 09:13:14 PM
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
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
April 01, 2013, 06:46:25 PM
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.
Just a simple program that understands how to receive BTC, read the intended address, and then send BTC to that address.
March 31, 2013, 12:41:36 PM
I run free-to-use website for such bounties: https://fundhub.org/
March 30, 2013, 04:32:19 PM
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.
March 30, 2013, 12:26:32 PM
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.
I code in node.js, so your frontend will need to be (node.)js.
March 30, 2013, 11:28:58 AM
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.
March 30, 2013, 09:27:37 AM
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.
I'll have a look and see if I can do this. I have experience using BTC with node.js and IRC.
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March 30, 2013, 07:47:43 AM
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?
March 02, 2013, 12:41:17 PM
Can I stole your job? You know, 300 btc... Intriguing
February 28, 2013, 01:21:54 PM
I did start. I think I made initial progress on the javascript library/web-app that would hook up to the forum and the SMF plugin that would take care of stuff behind the scenes.
February 28, 2013, 12:25:45 PM
Tachikoma, did you end up building anything then or just designs?
February 28, 2013, 07:55:40 AM
It did not seem like Theymos was keen on implementing this, so nothing is happening with it so far.
February 28, 2013, 06:03:35 AM
Can anyone give a brief update about this?
January 10, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Why is that? I think the user experience is a lot better if you don't have to visit an other site to tip. The javascript will be loaded from external servers and all the communication will happen client side directly to the API service. It doesn't have to go through the forum code at all.
So if you lose the bitcoins, people don't blame the forum.
Any opinions on what should be a fair fee?
1%, maybe.
December 19, 2012, 04:57:16 AM
You need to give people the option of opting out of PMs when they receive donations. Otherwise some people will be annoyed, especially when they get PMs for very small tips.
This should be possible.
I'd prefer all of the actual tipping stuff to be done on your site, not through JavaScript stuff on this site.
Why is that? I think the user experience is a lot better if you don't have to visit an other site to tip. The javascript will be loaded from external servers and all the communication will happen client side directly to the API service. It doesn't have to go through the forum code at all.
This alone won't prevent people from tipping themselves. Are you also going to take a fee?
I can easily add in a fee, I did not account for tipping with puppets. Any opinions on what should be a fair fee?
December 18, 2012, 09:14:31 PM
Sounds mostly good.
You need to give people the option of opting out of PMs when they receive donations. Otherwise some people will be annoyed, especially when they get PMs for very small tips.
I'd prefer all of the actual tipping stuff to be done on your site, not through JavaScript stuff on this site.
Tipping yourself is not possible the tip link won't show on posts that are your own. And even if you try to bypass that we can do an extra check on the server side since we have the internal forum id.
This alone won't prevent people from tipping themselves. Are you also going to take a fee?
December 18, 2012, 06:49:31 PM
If you send tips to an account which is not activated yet the system will simply hold the coins for you.
Could you elaborate on this part? I think it's necessary that the recipient of the tip gets a message alerting him that he has funds awaiting him.
Sure. An "anonymous" user would be created in the service database. It would have a deposit address an forum_user_id key but no secret hash. The user would be send a message via PM that a tip has been send and he can then activate his account by either tipping somebody else or just send a signup message in pm. The service would recognise the forum_user_id of the user just activating his tipping and thus assign him the tips.
Excellent. Waiting to hear back from Theymos and we can move forward.
December 16, 2012, 05:56:04 PM
If you send tips to an account which is not activated yet the system will simply hold the coins for you.
Could you elaborate on this part? I think it's necessary that the recipient of the tip gets a message alerting him that he has funds awaiting him.
Sure. An "anonymous" user would be created in the service database. It would have a deposit address an forum_user_id key but no secret hash. The user would be send a message via PM that a tip has been send and he can then activate his account by either tipping somebody else or just send a signup message in pm. The service would recognise the forum_user_id of the user just activating his tipping and thus assign him the tips.
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