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spend my bitcoins? no. nevertheless, i'm curious how this would work. a command line utility you connect to your wallet, which looks for addresses in user profile "about" sections? i'm not sure what "bot" signifies then.
once set up with the system you could type Tip [HN USERNAME] [AMOUNT] and so it would be
The only occasion I could think of where I would consider it would be if a respected HN user was in some kind of trouble and only short term money could help - living in the UK a transfer to the US is slow and expensive - but the circumstances would need to be exceptional.
In other words, if you do this in such a way that people who don't care about this can't even tell that it's going on, that's fine. If you have to interact with the HN interface, e.g., by leaving comments, that will become incredibly annoying.
How could you do it without leaving comments? Easy. People who care enough could leave their public BTC address in their profile and install a browser extension that allows for your tip trigger mechanism to be something other than comments. The browser extension could indicate which users can or cannot receive a tip based on a cached scrape of their profile indicating whether or not they have a public BTC address.
I'm not sure if I would use it to be honest, I barely have money for myself, it seems it would be foolish to give it away to other people, even for an outstanding post. The only occasion I could think of where I would consider it would be if a respected HN user was in some kind of trouble and only short term money could help - living in the UK a transfer to the US is slow and expensive - but the circumstances would n…
Please do not deploy this unless you do it in a way that does not leave a trace. In other words, if you do this in such a way that people who don't care about this can't even tell that it's going on , that's fine. If you have to interact with the HN interface, e.g., by leaving comments, that will become incredibly annoying. How could you do it without leaving comments? Easy. People who care enough could leave their p…
I'm not sure if I would use it to be honest, I barely have money for myself, it seems it would be foolish to give it away to other people, even for an outstanding post. The only occasion I could think of where I would consider it would be if a respected HN user was in some kind of trouble and only short term money could help - living in the UK a transfer to the US is slow and expensive - but the circumstances would n…
understood
The idea is definitely a good niche and if I simply had more disposable income I would use it - don't let me refusal discredit it in any way.
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once set up with the system you could type Tip [HN USERNAME] [AMOUNT] and so it would be
i see, but i imagine that would get you banned for spamming around here :\
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see how it works on http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip basically, a bot is a user on forum, you send it some coins. it then monitors your comments, and if you say "tip user XX with YY amount", it sends the coins to that user for redeeming.
exactly. so you reckon it's a good idea. would you use it?
edit - I also wonder how it would evolve on HN. I could imagine using it here not for tipping, but for crowdfunding of sorts. With so many vcs reading this group, I'd expect people throwing 1-2BTC at a time at good ideas/ShowHNs to support some of the entrepreneurs.
I also share mmastrac's concerns about comment spam. At most, this should communicate out-of-band somehow, using the HNSearch API: https://www.hnsearch.com/api