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Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by tinco »

icelancer wrote: post #65
CamperBob2 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he's simply referring to a bank account.

So was tinco.

I was not actually, I was talking about how expensive it is to be a bank.

A bank account of course solves all those things, but because of the nature of bitcoin it's rather hard if not impossible to realize the financial system we know as banking using Bitcoin instead of government controlled currencies.

So if he was indeed talking about a bank account, then it was a sneer towards Bitcoin itself, and he'd be quite right, the banking system solves this problem very well.

I still think the three party transaction system would be preferable even to banking, if it can be done.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by arsenische »

andrewgjohnson wrote: post #25

I like the idea of prepaying bit coins on bounties [presumably tied to an issue/bug report in GitHub] which is what I thought this was at first. As is seems a bit confusing, are all commits treated equally? I'd be peeved if I donated money then saw it get split up among people who did minor clean up, typo fixes, etc. Flip side, I'd be peeved if I spent a bunch of time on a commit then saw the same money go to someone…

You are right. But it is not a salary, it is just a tip. If developer spent time to make even a tiny useful commit - that is good. Probably with time it will become harder to find tiny commits. And donations will probably keep accumulating thus creating higher incentive for more complex commits.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by arsenische »

lcasela wrote: post #42

This is a really good idea! It really adds an incentive to contributing.(Though I can see a lot of people abusing this.)

if you mean trivial yet still useful commits, then hopefully it will be harder to abuse when all the simple things are improved

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by arsenische »

joeyh wrote: post #63
sashazykov wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's not an MVP. We retrieve new commits using github API.

I'd like to drop $500 to $1k for git-annex into tip4commit. This is money that was donated to me in a crowdfunding campaign ( http://campaign.joeyh.name/ ) and set aside to get more people committing to git-annex than just me. Problem is this: git-annex's website and indeed its BTS are part of its git repository. So it gets lots of commits from eg "name@web". I don't want tip4commit to try to send bitcoin tips to suc…

We have just implemented this feature. All the commits with email addresses that don't have "." in its domain name will be ignored. Thanks!

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by arsenische »

MBCook wrote: post #8

This seems like an accidental perverse incentive. While you only get the top if your commit is accepted, I would be worried the maintainers will just end up with a bunch of low effort trivial patches.

Hopefully in the long term low effort trivial (but yet useful) fixes will become a scarce resource.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by edavis »

rthomas6 wrote: post #53
edavis wrote: post #35

Projects like these is where Bitcoin can really shine. Maybe Bitcoin will conquer the world, maybe it won't. I have no idea. What I do know is there is real utility in being "electronic petty cash" which Bitcoin can easily become. Imagine: Alice sends Bob a few bitcoins after Bob writes a particularly insightful comment on HN. Bob then comes across a great blog post by Charlie and sends him a few bitcoins. Charlie th…

Someone on Reddit made a bot that implements this functionality site-wide. You can say "+/u/bitcointip @Username $1" in a comment or message, and the bot will send $1 worth of bitcoins out of your balance to that user. If they don't have a Reddit Bitcoin wallet, it creates one when they get sent coins. The bot also has denominations of beer ($3.64), coffee ($1.38), and internet ($0.25).

Yeah, /u/bitcointip is a great example of what I'm talking about.

Though I do wonder how the more vocal Bitcoin supporters would react if the project never grew beyond "electronic petty cash," even if it was successful at being that (i.e., widely used and easy to set up).

My worry is if Bitcoin "fails" in its larger goals (e.g., challenging the USD's global domination), it'll be seen as a failed project which will keep it from even being able to accomplish its smaller, more manageable goals.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by alxndr »

arsenische wrote: post #64
alxndr wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if the merger were able to modify the tip amount? A project could have a standard of, say, 0.5% for typo fixes, 1% for documentation, 2% for refactoring which improves Code Climate or coverage statistics...

Hm... Do you mean to allow the merger to specify the value of the commit? E. g. by default it could be 1%, but merger can make it smaller if commit is not very valuable. Sounds like a good idea, thanks!

Yep, that's what I was imagining. And perhaps projects would publish any guidelines they end up going by for what commits could be worth.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by Skoofoo »

sferik wrote: post #52

The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files . If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future. Personally, I prefer Gittip’s m…

People have an economic incentive to pick the low-hanging fruit, but eventually there will be none left.

Personally, I wouldn't mind accepting something like that for my own open source project. It takes time to proofread, and I appreciate spotless grammar.

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