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Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by amasad »

progval wrote: post #18
chippy wrote: post #6

Three clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn't care about initially). First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). Then work your way down the page to the link "Want to Tip? Get started with Lightning Network" (Very…

> First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)

I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by 0xferruccio »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #12
amasad wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all fluff and nothing of substance. Add to that all the 51% attacks. Ethereuem World Computer couldn't handle some kitties. Come on. Bitcoin is here. Bitcoin works. Bitcoin is battle tested. Obviously anyone choosing to altcoin is doing it as a quick-get-rich scheme and not actually trying to build something useful.

Bitcoin is not suitable for actual transactions though, with its low transaction rate.

LN is a good solution imo. Bitcoin transactions only happen when opening and closing a channel (which is kind of like moving money from a savings account to a prepaid card) after that you can do as many payments as you want. Eventually I guess Bitcoin will move to having larger blocks, but that largely depends on the world getting faster connections for node syncing and hard disks price going down (to store the actual blockchain)

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by trymas »

chippy wrote: post #6

Three clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn't care about initially). First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). Then work your way down the page to the link "Want to Tip? Get started with Lightning Network" (Very…

Apparently author would like someone to buy him a taco more than he would like to show his project. :) ..... or it's a smart way to get money while users are testing out this tipping service.

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

#24

Post by trymas »

amasad wrote: post #21
progval wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)

I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?

It's cool project, though I very often see critique (or tips) on web design.

Sometimes it's very simple bugs/problems authors have overlooked, sometimes it's just not very good UX (e.g. open a webpage and i does not answer what? why? how? and how much?).

Very often top comment can be a link or explanation which answers all these questions, that index page does not answer.

In this case we have link to the relevant part - which IMO should be the index page.

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by VMG »

maeln wrote: post #4

I like the comment of Peter Sunde on it : https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1098485289528500229 Seriously, what are the advantage of Tippin compare to a service that use real word currencies ? Anonymity ?

Uncensorable. Your politics or the politics of your leaders are irrelevant.

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

#26

Post by VMG »

omeid2 wrote: post #16
amasad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Money over IP is quite impressive. Something ideological must be clouding your judgement if you can't see it.

"Money over IP", so like Credit Card? PayPal? and many other money services?

The companies you mention are only money services to politically aligned customers.

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by Vrpe »

amasad wrote: post #20
omeid2 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Money over IP", so like Credit Card? PayPal? and many other money services?

Nope. I mean money as in actual wealth. As in a store of value money.

You mean value that fluctuates "randomly" on the daily in what was proven to be a manipulated market? A market plagued by corrupt, insecure or amateur on-ramps like Quadriga, Bitfinex or MtGox? Anonymity goes out the door as soon as you get verified on one of these on and off ramps.

You cannot have a store of value if the only value that is created is a speculative agreement. The same critique that went behind fiat currency no longer being backed by gold applies just the same to cryptocurrencies. Turnkey solutions like stablecoins essentially mean you are now forced into using them as a pseudo bank and counting on them to not be handling fractional reserves at any point in time.

Crypto can have its uses in time, but it is not the emperor's new financial panacea that many people hope it is.

Regardless, the project is pretty cool and so is its execution.

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

amasad wrote: post #21
progval wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)

I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?

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Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

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Post by oarsinsync »

amasad wrote: post #21
progval wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer). And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)

I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?

http://n-gate.com/ describes their hacker news weekly summaries as 'webshit weekly'. Read into that (along with all the other comments on this thread) what you will

Re: Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

#30

Post by VMG »

tobiaswk wrote: post #7

This is a beta project, just like the Lightning Network itself, so losing small amounts is a possibility. I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.

It actually works pretty well whenever I use it. They are just responsible hackers and are pointing out that it is not production quality yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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