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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 CamperBob2 »

tinco wrote: post #54
slg wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only there was some party out there that could protect us from things like this. Possibly even insuring us in the case of something going really wrong and the person holding our money loses it all. They could also establish rules that anyone holding money would have to comply with in order to be certified as safe. Wouldn't that be grand...

It would be grand indeed. It would even be more grand if a small project like this would be able to partake in that party's service without paying thousands of dollars for audits, registration fees, insurance fees and such. But perhaps it would be more grand if that expensive and bureaucratic third party could just be avoided with a smart technical solution :)

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

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

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Post by arsenische »

tinco wrote: post #41

I hate to be a party pooper here, but if this project would ever take off, and the project would receive serious amounts of bitcoin that would mean that serious amount of bitcoin would have to be managed and secured by whoever runs that project. The past has shown that everyone, even persons who run e-wallets and currency exchanges, severely underestimates the amount of security such an endeavour requires. There's a…

Yes, it is a risk. Same question partially answered here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315802.msg3910308#ms... . If project gets traction then most of the collected bitcoins will probably be stored in offline wallet (and hopefully 5% fees would allow to cover losses in case of a hot wallet hack).

update: fixed a mistake (online to offline)

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

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Post by joeyh »

sashazykov wrote: post #12
tobyjsullivan wrote: post #7

Is this operated with some sort of commit hook or done manually by the project maintainers or what? Edit: At present this is obviously an MVP that is probably being completely "faked" on the back-end, so I suppose my question should be "What is the intended design?"

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 such dummy email addresses.

Is this something your platform can handle? It would be sufficient if the emails you send have to be acted on to take bitcoin out of the tip pool, and it otherwise remains available for the next committer.

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

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Post by arsenische »

alxndr wrote: post #58
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…

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!

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

#65

Post by icelancer »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #61
tinco wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be grand indeed. It would even be more grand if a small project like this would be able to partake in that party's service without paying thousands of dollars for audits, registration fees, insurance fees and such. But perhaps it would be more grand if that expensive and bureaucratic third party could just be avoided with a smart technical solution :)

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

So was tinco.

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

#66

Post by oneeyedpigeon »

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…

You don’t know that the PR was submitted with any knowledge of tip4commit. Would you accept the commit normally? Do you want the very existence of tip4commit to modify your project management? My advice: act as if tip4commit doesn’t exist; they’re just providing a service on the side which you shouldn’t need to worry about.

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

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Post by olouv »

Got a tip putting the tip4commit link in the readme...! http://tip4commit.com/projects/143

Not sure this is intended behavior.

Shouldn't the owner of repositories be out of scope (or at least make it configurable)? tipping myself minus the commission is no fun ;-).

PS: would make sense to have a signup via github

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

#68

Post by CamperBob2 »

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.

Since when does a bank account require me to "pay thousands of dollars for audits, registration fees, insurance fees and such"?

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

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Post by arsenische »

olouv wrote: post #67

Got a tip putting the tip4commit link in the readme...! http://tip4commit.com/projects/143 Not sure this is intended behavior. Shouldn't the owner of repositories be out of scope (or at least make it configurable)? tipping myself minus the commission is no fun ;-). PS: would make sense to have a signup via github

Yes, why not (we can't be sure that it was you who donated to your project). At least you know it works ;) Thanks for trying out!

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

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Post by nailer »

jnbiche wrote: post #31
nailer wrote: post #19

Can someone more familiar with $BITC explain how Bitcoins can be portioned? I get that each bitcoin is a unique number - how can 0.4 of a number belong to someone and the other 0.6 of that number belong to someone else?

There are really no "Bitcoins", there are only a very long series of inputs and outputs to various Bitcoin addresses, all recorded on the shared block chain. Inputs (Bitcoins) come in to the system through mining, and then they are traded out via outputs and in via inputs. The smallest value for an input/output is 1 Satoshi. 1 Bitcoin equals 100,000,000 Satoshi. So a Bitcoin is just a convenient measurement of inputs…

Thanks to you + all who responded about Satoshis.
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