Reddit.com: First Bitcoin-Tipping-Bot testruns! - page 3.

Arto

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Quote from: Arto on October 19, 2012, 12:40:17 PM

Quote from: justusranvier on October 19, 2012, 12:32:47 PM

Why did Reddit get a Bitcoin-tipping bot before this forum got one?

Because someone cared enough to volunteer to implement one, and because (evidently) the technology platform in question provided sufficient mechanisms to accommodate that without requiring an official blessing and/or any administrator effort. In other words, motivation and a low barrier to entry; always a winning combination.

plus reddit has an api, and to implement one on here would take a lot of scraping, and alot of work before even getting to the bitcoin part.

Yes, exactly; that's what I meant by the underlying technology platform providing sufficient capabilities to permit ordinary users to innovate in this way.

Arto

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Quote from: justusranvier on October 19, 2012, 12:32:47 PM

Why did Reddit get a Bitcoin-tipping bot before this forum got one?

Because someone cared enough to volunteer to implement one, and because (evidently) the technology platform in question provided sufficient mechanisms to accommodate that without requiring an official blessing and/or any administrator effort. In other words, motivation and a low barrier to entry; always a winning combination.

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Why did Reddit get a Bitcoin-tipping bot before this forum got one?

Akka

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^ I can't even express how important that is.

And I know its hard, but there is no better way to scare away people by being preachy (ever talked to a serious religious person?)

paraipan

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^good advice, I learned that from experience though

evoorhees

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Democracy is the original 51% attack

This system is really badass

I do have a suggestion for people though: when you send BTC tips within Reddit, try not to get all preachy or salesy. The best tactic might be to tip, then if a question is asked like "WTF is this?" One person should answer with a simple, straightforward sentence. Don't start talking about all the great features of Bitcoin, just be cool, and pique their curiosity.

Example:

Q: "WTF is this?"

A: "You were tipped with bitcoin which is a digital currency. The amount you got is worth about $0.50 at current market price."

Done.

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Developer here.

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This is actually a very very cool idea. Is this
a reddit product?
a user bot with the blessing of reddit?
an independent bot like anybody could write a bot?

Who are the people behind this bot?

Not a reddit product, just a bot made by a reddit user.

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What is their measure in case reddit cancels this?

If reddit cancels this I will probably make a new system for withdrawals only.

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Whom can I slap if the hot wallet password "accidentally" gets too accessible?

Yourself. Don't deposit more than you're willing to lose at this time. There is no warranty, insurance, or guarantee of any kind.

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Edit: This should just as well work on twitter!?! and if done by the same people, transactions between twitter and reddit could be free.

This was inspired by the twitter version btctip.com. I've used it and was impressed. That is run by someone else.

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Edit: So for $5 I may get my money back in case the service is terminated?
With my money in my own priv key the service makes a more reliable impression to the whereabouts of my money (no fractional reserve) but it's ultimately less secure (100% hot wallet) and costs fees to send between reddit users.

Not so much if the service is terminated, more like in the event of downtime be it with the bot, blockchain.info, or reddit itself.

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http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11qoyg/morgan_stanley_banker_william_bryon_jennings_who/c6os4pn?context=3

That escalated quickly.

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Quote from: Raoul Duke on October 18, 2012, 09:03:20 PM

Quote from: Spekulatius on October 18, 2012, 08:45:35 PM

Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! Grin

http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/11ja6g/from_now_on_money_you_receive_will_be_temporarily/

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[–]Puupsfred 2 pontos 41 minutos atrás

+bitcointip 0.01 BTC

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[–]bitcointip 2 pontos 27 minutos atrás

Transaction Verified!

Puupsfred --> 0.01 BTC (~$0.12 USD) --> Sufficio

About Bitcointip

[–]Sufficio 1 ponto 11 minutos atrás

I'm so confused right now.

LMAO

Awesome, will get some btc notice I think.

paraipan

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This is great, will check it out right now Grin

*heading to reddit*

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WalletScrutiny.com

Quote from: Arto on October 19, 2012, 07:55:51 AM

Note that it looks like the bot can currently take a while to respond to PMs. It took 15 minutes for it to respond to a "HELP" message, for instance.

Haha lol

Maybe the ""bot"" is in early development and responses are done manually by some non-programmer to gauge interest in a real bot?

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Quote from: Akka on October 19, 2012, 07:51:19 AM

Quote from: Spekulatius on October 18, 2012, 08:45:35 PM

Also check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal
Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! Grin

If that works out, thats exactly what I'm going to do.

Give 2BTC to tip 200 Paypal victims? I will have so much fun on this day.

... Have to prepare some mocking messages I send with the tip, suggestions welcome.

Arto

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Just redeemed my existing Reddit karma with the bot for a grand total of ฿0.00202948 Grin

Note that it looks like the bot can currently take a while to respond to PMs. It took 15 minutes for it to respond to a "HELP" message, for instance.

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Quote from: Spekulatius on October 18, 2012, 08:45:35 PM

Also check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/paypal
Its funny as hell to tip those paypal victims with Bitcoin! Grin

If that works out, thats exactly what I'm going to do.

Give 2BTC to tip 200 Paypal victims? I will have so much fun.

... Have to prepare some mocking messages I send with the tip, suggestions welcome.

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Quote from: Sukrim on October 19, 2012, 05:41:54 AM

Yeah, it doesn't look like an official reddit.com project to me... however the topic here suggests it is. Maybe change that.

Any official statement from either reddit or btctip.com on the matter?

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Yeah, it doesn't look like an official reddit.com project to me... however the topic here suggests it is. Maybe change that.

Dansker

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Hello world!

Now we just need to have reddit integrate it into the site itself, so we can have a button that does this.

finway

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Reddit.com's bot or btctip.com's bot ?

LightRider

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I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project.

I still don't know what the hell a reddit is, but this looks like a good development.

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And so it begins.

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