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ChangeTip Shutting Down (self.changetip)

Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder が 投稿 - announcement

When we started ChangeTip a little over 2 years ago, we had a vision for a company that would allow people to spread appreciation on the web for things they enjoyed. It feels good to be appreciated, and ChangeTip aimed to make that possible all over the web.

Since then, over 100,000 people have signed up for ChangeTip, and more than 350,000 tips have been sent. We gave the Bitcoin movement a good boost, and we’re honored to have been the ‘first bitcoin wallet’ for so many people.

In the spring of 2016, ChangeTip’s employees were acqui-hired by Airbnb, where most of us work today. Since then, we’ve been searching for the best outcome for ChangeTip, and unfortunately the only remaining option is to shut it down.

At the end of November 2016, all tipping functionality will be deactivated, and the site will be put into withdrawal-only mode for people to collect their funds. The site will remain up for a number of months to allow users to withdraw their funds, and we will be reaching out to users to notify them.

We recommend you close your ChangeTip account. You may withdraw any remaining funds via BTC withdrawal, or you can donate your funds to Charity when you close your account from the settings page.

FAQ

  1. Wait! Can’t you keep it running by doing x or y or z? We’ve explored dozens of options thoroughly over the past few months, and came up empty. It’s time. Among other complications, the monthly costs to maintain the servers, services, and customer support to keep the site running are not insignificant. Furthermore, the potential legal liabilities that may arise make a volunteer effort unappealing.
  2. What happens to my money? We want you to have it! The site will be up in a withdrawal-only mode for you to log in and withdraw the funds. If you don’t want it, you can donate it to charity when you close your account.
  3. How long do withdrawals take? We process withdrawals in batches, usually within 24 hours. If you’re still waiting after that, feel free to send us an email.
  4. What about my USD? Withdrawal as USD has been unavailable for a few months. However, you may convert your USD to bitcoin and withdraw it.
  5. What happens to my data? When you log-in, you will have the option of closing your account, at which point we will delete all the social data.
  6. Are you making money off this closure in any way? No. In fact, we have been working for free for quite some time to keep the site running.
  7. How long will you keep the site up? For a reasonable amount of time, probably a couple months. We have a lot of work to do to contact users to let them know to come to the site and get their money. If you have friends or family who use ChangeTip, please help spread us the word.
  8. What if I have another question? Ask below, and we will try to get it answered.

We want to extend a very special thanks to our entire community. We are truly humbled by your generosity and your philanthropic spirit. It was a great adventure, and we’re proud of what we built - we sincerely hope you enjoyed using ChangeTip. Please continue to spread the mission of generosity, gratitude, and appreciation all over the web.

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[–]cointastical 72 ポイント73 ポイント  (4子コメント)

So long, and thanks for all the bits!

[Edited]

[–]hodlgentlemen 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (5子コメント)

That's a real pity. What will you guys do with the codebase? Open source it?

[–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Maybe.

[–]hodlgentlemen 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think many people would consider that a great gift to the Bitcoin space. Thanks for being an inspirational part of the community for so long.

[–]80558055 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please do make this open source. I found this service very interesting and I think there is a future for it on the internet. Micropayments wise.

[–]benjaminikuta 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please.

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    [–]bitofit 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Any postmortem or lessons learned for future entrepreneurs who want to take a stab at this space?

    [–]biosense 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    What are you guys doing at Airbnb? Boring stuff unrelated to bitcoin?

    [–]Leithm 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Good times, when bitcoin was really growing all sort of exciting stuff was being built.

    Thanks guys.

    [–]usrn 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    had about 1500 bits (1-2USD), I tried to withdraw then I got an error saying that the amount is too low to withdraw, then my balance disappeared.

    That's gregonomics and a crappy backend for you.

    [–]AskChangeTip 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    That looks like an old error message. Your withdrawal was processed. PMing you the transaction ID.

    [–]usrn 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    thanks :)

    [–]tokyopotato 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    huh. blame somebody for something completely unrelated. and you probably wonder why r/bitcoin is moderated

    [–]elruary 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Admin fee was 2 dollars, sorry you don't get anything back. Thanks for your service though!

    [–]GeriGeriGeri 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    +/u/dogetipbot 25 doge verify

    [–]dogetipbot[🍰] 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    [wow so verify]: /u/GeriGeriGeri -> /u/usrn Ð25 Dogecoins ($0.00492125) [help]

    [–]loserkids 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Wow. Very money. So rich.

    [–]benjaminikuta 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Is this still up and running?

    [–]GeriGeriGeri 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    yes, actually the only related bot that still alive and going

    [–]benjaminikuta 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Why is it still up?

    [–]GeriGeriGeri 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    probably becouse dogecoin is the only cryptocoin on the market that is actually used

    [–]benjaminikuta 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    What do you mean?

    Isn't bitcoin used most often?

    [–]GeriGeriGeri 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    well its tipbot is just shutting down, obviously not for overusage

    [–]FrostyFoss 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It is. Currently valued at $750 per coin too.

    [–]FjorXD 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Thanks for the water bottle, still using it. Anyway, ChangeTip was a great tool to welcome new people into the Bitcoin world since there was no need for a Bitcoin wallet beforehand. Made several hundred small transactions through it. But clearly not enough people were using it. Sad to see it go, but understandable

    [–]tzimisce 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Eh, sad to see changetip go. I enjoyed using it very much.

    /u/changetip $2

    [–]changetip 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Nick_Changetip received a tip for 2,683 bits ($2.00).

    what is ChangeTip?

    [–]yooman 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    /u/Nick_Changetip, you should probably note the closure on these wiki pages ("what is changetip" above has no mention of it)

    [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Will do, thank you for pointing that out. /u/changetip 1 taco

    [–]yooman 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Hey thanks for the taco! Dammit I am going to miss changetip...

    [–]changetip 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    yooman received a tip for 1 taco (3,359 bits/$2.50).

    what is ChangeTip?

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      [–]RenaKunisaki 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Well that sucks.

      [–]toriborealis 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (2子コメント)

      I pitched a few companies in the space about taking over ChangeTip as a fun, community-focused project that we could use to introduce people to the ease, convenience and fun of bitcoin. No one bit. Hard to sell people on taking something over "for the community" as everyone is focused on profit.

      That makes me sad, because we had such a fun and robust community of bitcoiners in ChangeTip and many of us used it not only for "spreading gratitude" but for introducing people to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

      It's been my dream for a few people to get together and rebuild the product in an open-source way that we feel good about using.

      [–]BitGiveOrg 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      It is very difficult to have successful and sustainable not-for-profit community efforts!

      [–]benjaminikuta 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Could we all pitch in and donate our CPU time?

      [–]slush0 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Hey, friend of me has locked substantial amount on Changetip in withdrawal process, for 4 days already. He also tried to contact your support yesterday, no response so far. Are you going to process these payouts anytime soon? I bet he's not going to donate $1000+...

      Edit: He just clarify the support responded, with additional questions about his account. Not sure why, is there any AML on Bitcoin-only deposits/withdrawal?

      [–]nter 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (6子コメント)

      5. What happens to my data? When you log-in, you will have the option of closing your account, at which point we will delete all the social data.

      what about the financial data of users such as linked card, bank account, paypal?

      [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (5子コメント)

      Good question.

      For financial data, we made it an intentional point to not store credit card, bank account, etc. data (anything that could be used for a transaction). This is industry standard best practice. The way it works is that the credit card/bank account information is sent to a 3rd party credit card processor, and they give us a token back. We then charge with this token, and it's good for a 1 time use.

      In short, we don't have your actual credit card data, we only have a token that references it, so there is nothing to delete.

      [–]momslatin_dadsasian 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (4子コメント)

      Yes there is, you can and should delete the customer data on the 3rd party, which i assume is stripe, in which case you have an api for deleting their info

      [–]GenBlase 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (3子コメント)

      Third party is usually the card brand. like Visa. You want Visa to delete your account?

      [–]nickjohnson 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Mostly people don't work directly with visa unless they're huge, but rather a payment processor like Stripe.

      [–]Cab000se 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Can I buy the rights to changetip?

      [–]tesfox 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Not a single mention of /u/dogetipbot. I'm disappointed. Best of luck guys! And thanks for providing the service!

      [–]winlifeat 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (2子コメント)

      It's fucked up that you took over what was a free service, bitcointip, made it much more shitty and business-like, then you shut it down. Thanks for ruining what was a great simple service.

      [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (1子コメント)

      We didn't take over bitcointip. It was a completely separate service.

      [–]_supert_ 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Did it share any code?

      [–]ecafyelims 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I wish you the best in whatever you do. I don't think the world was ready for changetip. Personally, I was turned off by the fact that tipees were required to create an account and agree to the TOS in order to receive a tip from me.

      [–]gta350 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (4子コメント)

      Trezor killed Telebit and now Airbnb kill Changetip. Great job guys. Hope you come with a replacement soon.

      [–]stickac 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

      Trezor was not involved in killing Telebit. There was no partnership, except cross-marketing.

      [–]gta350 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

      I see....

      [–]stickac 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

      There are instructions how to use Bitstamp and other services with TREZOR. Does that mean that TREZOR acquired Bitstamp?

      [–]gta350 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Actually not, it means that Trezor has signed a partnership with Bitstamp. I really don't know what happened in Czech Republic at that meetup or if that guy got busted or not, but time will tell.

      [–]pinhead26 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (4子コメント)

      So back to /u/bitcointip?

      [–]vbenes 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

      Came here for this... It was a breeze to use here (just reddit PMs without additional logins).

      [–]pinhead26 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (2子コメント)

      Yeah and IIRC, the bot actually opened blockchain.info wallets for every new tipped user, and used their API to actually move bitcoins on the blockchain for each tip, so each micro-tx was actually on chain. The gold ole' days, huh?!

      [–]vbenes 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      bot actually opened blockchain.info wallets

      Oh, well. I didn't know that. I don't like BCI.

      wallets for every new tipped user

      One reddit PM and new user could send tipped BTC anywhere (e.g. own electrum address, charity, humble bundle, ...). That was nice.

      move bitcoins on the blockchain for each tip, so each micro-tx was actually on chain

      I liked that for educational purposes (transaction was visible in online block explorers).

      [–]Borax 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      That wouldn't work now though because fees for on chain are so much higher

      [–]yeh-nah-yeh 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (2子コメント)

      When is airbnb going to accept bitcoin as payments and offer bitcoin payments to hosts?

      [–]momslatin_dadsasian 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

      when they want to bankrupt themselves by the legal liabilities this will introduce (and all the SFYLs they'll have to refund)

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        [–]BitcoinTR 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

        We will miss you :(

        [–]Meg4Freedom 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Thanks for providing an awesome service and knowing, like seasoned entrepreneurs, when it's time to peacefully close shop. Bravo.

        [–]couchdive 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

        I was her for the beginning and the end. Good luck everyone and thank you!

        [–]Voluntaryists_dude 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (5子コメント)

        Who gets the coins that are never withdrawn??????????????????

        Maybe I don't understand something, but at face value, it sounds like you're STEELING them, or you would of said. I hate to be presumptuous, BUT I bet I'm right.

        AND the above is understated; some WILL NEVER FORGET.

        [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (4子コメント)

        We'll be making every attempt to get users back their funds, including:

        • This message (publicly announcing it), giving ample time for people to withdraw
        • Private messaging users on every platform that supports it, so we can notify them to come get their funds.
        • We will work through various methods of trying to contact users, for each connected social channel we have contact data for
        • Changing the tip response messages to tell people that the site is closed
        • A message on the home page that

        Every reasonable attempt will be made to contact users and return their funds. After that, there is a legal protocol for us to follow for unclaimed founds, which we will be following. I think involves returning money to The State (but I'm not sure yet). Eww. It's really better for everyone, including me, if people withdraw their funds.

        On a personal note - I have way more at stake here from a reputation perspective than the total amount of money that is left to be distributed. I have spent several months working for free to find a good home for ChangeTip. Yesterday, I added an option to make it easier for people to close their account and donate the money to ChangeTip. Believe it or not, there are good, reputable, trustworthy people in Bitcoin. :)

        I appreciate the call-out. You'll see that we do the right thing. Keep me honest.

        [–]Voluntaryists_dude 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

        THANKS, I sincerely want ya'll to be right and honorable. It always bothers me when companies like ChangeTip don't state who is in control of the funds, etc. And I'd seen from the beginning, that ChangeTip didn't do that. To a much lesser extent, I don't think Coinbase is straight forward, and I think MtGox and BitInstant were crooked with their lack of openness alone. But maybe it's just that I don't understand somethings, cause save the obvious MtGox example, noone seems to mind. And I do so appreciate ya'll doing ChangeTip; your service is life-changing. I hope someone will take it over; I thought it could make good money. And I considered donating to ya'll, but the above made me decide no way. Thanks Nick for your hard work and service to all!

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          [–]gosgood 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Will CT still work for tomorrow's /r/millionairemakers drawing?

          [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (2子コメント)

          Yes.

          [–]goodbtc 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

          /r/millionairemakers is the best example why we need ChangeTip.

          Thank you for your hard work!

          [–]xoxoreddit 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Holy crap, I wasn't sure if I even had a ChangeTip account. Turns out I deposited 0.1 BTC in it two years ago / $25 worth. I tripled my money!!

          [–]NicolasDorier 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I am sad about this outcome, do you think to open the source code ?

          [–]bitdoggy 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (5子コメント)

          Nice job, Blockstream.

          [–]BTCBadger 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (3子コメント)

          What the fuck does Blockstream have to do with this? ChangeTip didn't find a viable business model. Too bad because it was a fun service.

          I guess you are going to argue that a block size increase would have attracted more users, but I doubt ChangeTip would be viable even if there were 10x more users.

          [–]praeluceo 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          whoosh

          [–]giszmo 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          All the contrary. Changetip was an off-chain solution that the big-blockers claim blockstream to push for. Only that changetip bared third party risk that LN doesn't. If anything, chaingetip should flourish under fee pressure.

          [–]mperklin 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Thanks, Obama!

          [–]lightrider44 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          It won't let me withdraw the dust I have left in there. What is the minimum amount of money you will not steal from your users?

          [–]ChickenThreePointer 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          We will miss you ChangeTip

          [–]jtnichol 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I love Changetip. Sad to see you go. It really did get people motivated to have some fun on social networks with Bitcoin. Thanks for the good times.

          [–]Cryptolution 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Wow, this sucks so bad. I still actively tip and spread the love. I've sent dozens of tips over the past year, and I've actually maintained roughly 70% of my starting balance because other users would tip me as well.

          That shows how successful this platform was, even if they cannot make investors happy and return a profit.

          I was actually considering just recently using a circle account to fund my changetip so that I could tip more often and in larger amounts.

          Does anyone know of any competitors in this space?

          [–]helmex 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          you can use protip.is it is open source and very easy to use, just post a bitcoin addy on your webpage and people that use Protip will send you tips once a week automatically if your page was one they spend more time on.

          [–]Zarutian 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Sad to see you go.

          If anyone finds another as easy to use tipbbot for reddit then please let me know.

          [–]kilorat 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

          I was just thinking about Changetip yesterday. I missed when tipping bitcoin was a thing. We all hoped we would break out of that stage where people resist being tipped, but it just lost momentum. Subreddits would ban tipping, and it always felt like handing out bibles. Oh well, we tried!

          [–]bpj1805 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          It was like handing out Bibles! I found it rather annoying when in some subreddits half the damn page was taken up by changetip notifications. It's almost all noise and no signal, and should have been a PM by default. I didn't mind the actual tipping comments so much - if they provided content other than just the tip.

          [–]cyber_numismatist 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I know of Protip and Brave. Are there any others working on BTC-related projects similar to Changetip?

          [–]SirEDCaLot 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Thanks for giving it a go! Unfortunately it's hard to make money from spreading tiny tips around, especially when the technology theoretically allows doing this without an intermediary :(

          A question- What about the old bitcointip bot? Will it be reinstated?

          [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (2子コメント)

          To be clear, we had nothing to do with bitcointip. Separate effort.

          [–]SirEDCaLot 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Ah yeah I know, bitcointip was some other dude who ran it as a hobby, but when your thing started he decided yours was much nicer and packed it in. I was just wondering if you'd been in contact with him or anything (as I forget his username...)

          Now that I have a bit more time to comment- FWIW I am very sad to see you guys go. I think the idea behind changetip is a very good one- have a service-independent way to leave little tips for websites, posters on social media, etc.
          I think your only flaw was timing. You were too early (before Bitcoin has widespread use, and there'd be a big market for initiating non-users), but also too late (I heard a lot of people say why use something with a withdrawal fee when they can just past a BTC address for donations). I also think the current block size issue didn't help things, I know a lot of people are reluctant to introduce Bitcoin to new uses until the scaling issue is solved one way or another.

          Are you guys going to work for AirBnB now or do you have something else lined up? Either way, best of luck to all of you :)

          [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Thanks for the kind words! I want to tip you...

          I remember you being a big supporter. Thank you for helping spawn the effort.

          Up next - not sure yet.

          [–]dooglus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

          I got my withdrawal, thanks very much.

          One issue I noticed is that you included a very small fee.

          0.0001 BTC for a 700 byte transaction meant it took almost 2 hours to confirm.

          Bitcoin Core is currently estimating that you need 0.00026835 BTC per 1000 bytes to have a 95% chance of confirming within 25 blocks.

          [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Fixed.

          [–]WhyIsTheNamesGone 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

          0.00026835 BTC per 1000 bytes to have a 95% chance of confirming within 25 blocks

          I know some of those words

          [–]dooglus 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

          You gots to pay a big 'nuff fee and they wasn't but now they is.

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            [–]haight6716 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Syndicoin still works! It's costs are much lower, mainly because it never holds your funds.

            https://www.syndicoin.co/

            [–]riclas 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            looks cool. harder for non-bitcoin users though

            [–]slaykdy 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Changetip is pretty good. Thanks for your contribution to Bitcoin World. And I wish you succeed in the future.

            [–]Blawpaw 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            This very sad news indeed! Wish you all the best.

            [–]TeranNotTerran 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Are you looking to sell changetip? What can you tell me about the tech stack?

            [–]miki77miki 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Open source the code!

            [–]Gizmoiscute 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            I received a message from this sub that I had money from changetip today but when I go to my wallet I see nothing of btc or usd. I am not really knowledgeable of bitcoin, I was trying it out to see what it was all about but did not keep up, and so confused on what to do. The usd amount is weird looking to me it says from the reddit message -USD balance: $7.5E-7 this may seem normal to those who know much more, i am not even a good beginner which really stinks due to what is going on but I could use the money if I have it really and this is not an error. I have checked wallet back and forth and not sure what else to do , Help me please!!! Lady in distress ! Thank you

            [–]Sufficio 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I didn't even know I had an account, and it turns out I had $100 worth of tips from ages ago! Thanks, I'm tight on money right now so this was a great surprise to wake up to!

            [–]maskdmirag 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            So I made like $30 off you guys.

            I bought $15 a year and a half ago to tip.

            today I just withdrew $23 and I've tipped people $23

            that's incredible, why the hell didn't I buy more bitcoin?

            [–]helpergodd 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            all because of bitcoin core!

            [–]elfof4sky 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (3子コメント)

            What I coincidence! I just posted 2 days ago about you refunding my tips back to who knows where they went or if those people even will collect back the tips they gave to me and you took upon yourself to give away. Crash and burn Changetip. Crash and burn!

            [–]NeedHelpChangeTip 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I signed up for Changetip (along with 20+ coworkers) using Slack, but now its showing that Slack is no longer authorized.

            Is there still a way to log in using email and password?

            [–]ShapeShift_io 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            So sad to see Changetip go. Thanks so much for the service!

            [–]avapoet 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            This makes me sad. I'm sorry you couldn't find a way to make it work.

            Right: off to withdraw, I guess!

            [–]123choji 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            This has been a nice service.

            [–]xitize 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I'm sad for you, i have used alot changetip one year ago.

            [–]pietrod21 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Will you make public all actual transactions for study? It will be really interesting!

            [–]vogelito 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Would you guys be willing to open-source your stack?

            [–]yogibreakdance 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Where did the 3.5m go? I guess most users don't bother withdrawing dust, when combine they should worth something, maybe they return that to the VCs

            [–]tnethacker 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Why didn't you send us an email about the closure, as I just noticed it only by logging in?

            [–]IceburgSlimk 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (6子コメント)

            Complete n00b with all of this. I just started using this to donate to reddit make a millionaire.

            In dad terms, can you explain how to get my bits out? Where do I put them? I don't think my balance is very high.

            [–]Lynda73 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (5子コメント)

            Did you ever figure this out? I don't know how to get my coins out.

            [–]VirusKA 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            Can i get tipped for old times sake? ;)

            [–]therandomdude69 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            If I don't log in and close my account, will the money just get donated to charity?

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            No. You must login and withdraw and/or close your account.

            [–]therandomdude69 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Thanks for the quick answer!

            [–]dogsivu 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Sad about the out come as well..also, I put in USD via my personal bank account and would like to get cash back, which obviously is not going to happen. Enjoy my money.

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            We don't want it. If you go and transfer your USD to BTC, you can withdraw.

            [–]BIGbtc_Integration 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            All BS aside. You guys and gals did a great job. As with almost all things in business, timing is everything. The wheels fell off many bitcoin focused businesses for a variety of reasons not the least of which was the dampening effect of some heavy handed US regulators.

            There will be the right time for this and hope your team is ready and waiting to take back top spot in the micropayments space.

            GL

            Edit: spelling

            [–]itsinfo 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Thanks for the good times. Your team did wonders on teaching new comers about Bitcoin in a positive light! Very cool, and something that will be missed. Hope the whole team finds success at Airbnb, super cool to hear about that. Best :)

            [–]j0j0r0 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (6子コメント)

            Thank you all for your work!

            Is there any chance that you might open source your codebase?

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (5子コメント)

            This is the 5th request for this!

            The problem is the work required to clean everything up. It's not a herculean effort, because the code is pretty good, but it would require some engineering effort. I'll come back to this page and let you know if we do.

            [–]ask_for_pgp 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            just saw this, just wanted to let you know we would love to take over!

            [–]bpj1805 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            If you're shutting it down, I don't see much reason besides your technical reputation to "clean everything up". If someone else wants to run with the code, let them bear the burden of "cleaning everything up".

            [–]ChefBoyAreWeFucked 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            //Hash this in case (((someone))) tries to intercept it

            [–]Red_Wolf_2 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Just from a security perspective, I'd release the source code once the site is all shut down and finished. That way if there are any undiscovered vulnerabilities, they can't then be exploited to clean out other people's accounts.

            I for one would love to see the source code go public, I'm sure someone could make something of it!

            [–]j0j0r0 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Awesome. I would just hate to see something like this wasted.

            Thank you!

            [–]odonnell2016 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Damnit, I was planning on using change tip as a form of payment for my upstart weed empire now that it's newly legal in my state, but I still can't use banks for it

            [–]iamrafal 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Closed and donated to BitGive :) Sorry to hear about ChangeTip closing, you provided a great service which I unfortunately rarely used...

            [–]kixunil 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Thank you very much for providing useful and interesting service! I really like how you cared about customers and implemented great features. I will always remember.

            I'm glad you're at Airbnb. From little information I know it's high-quality company. I hope your Bitcoin background and enthusiasm will allow accommodations for Bitcoin one day.

            Good luck and may the coin be with you! :)

            [–]MoederPoeder 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Appreciate the charity option!

            [–]Vegazer0 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            "Thanks for all the fish"

            [–]kynek99 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Well... will Airbnb be doing something with bitcoin tips now ?

            [–]chinawat 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Trying to log in to my ChangeTip account at the website and getting this error:

            Authentication failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='oauth.reddit.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/v1/me.json (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error(111, 'Connection refused')))

            Any help appreciated.

            e: Worked just now. May have been a temporary issue.

            [–]whathappen34 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            /u/AskChangeTip do you have to have all accounts merged in order to withdraw funds? Or are all funds in your balance, even if one account is not merged anymore?

            I want to make sure I don't have any tips from Twitter, but when I try to connect, it says "Sorry, the existing account cannot be automatically merged. Please contact support@changetip.com to merge it for you."

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Yeah, contact support with the accounts that need to be merged and they will walk you through the process.

            [–]rory2013 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            If you let a volunteer buy out the company at a small price to make it legal then really there's no legal liability in that.

            [–]Not_dead_yet_fred 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            /u/changetip 326 bits

            Don't spend it all in one place.

            [–]changetip 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Nick_Changetip received a tip for 326 bits ($0.24).

            what is ChangeTip?

            [–]cypher437 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I'll take it on!

            [–]StaRkill3rZ 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Says my account is locked

            [–]HitMePat 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            Guess I should change tip myself the rest of my balance!

            [–]aurele[🍰] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            "You are doing that too much. Please try again in an hour." when closing my account. Could you delete my data permanently?

            Thanks for the service!

            [–]supah 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Bummer. Didn't use changetip that much, but still had 20 transactions. It was a great thing that such a thing existed, maybe it was not a time yet. Maybe in a few years it would be big. Thank you for making it possible.

            [–]loveforyouandme 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Noooooooo!

            Really saddened to hear this.

            But I understand Bitcoin is not a reliable network for a global peer-to-peer payment network in its current state.

            Thank you for all of your effort, really.

            [–]The3rdWorld 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            shame it's going, was a great idea!

            just a note to anyone unsure what to do with their last few bits, you can always donate them to wikileaks via their bitcoin address

            [–]Kprawn 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Going to miss you guys. Thanks for helping Bitcoin grow into what it is today.. You definitely had a share in our success. :-<

            [–]iknowtybo 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            So what if your balance is below the withdrawal threashold... /u/Nick_Changetip

            [–]Fatpandasneezes 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            It says I can donate my super meager amount.... How do I do this? I changed the setting on the 'give' tab, but is that only the stuff that is incoming from now on? Or does it do it to the stuff in my wallet too?

            [–]voneiden 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

            /u/Nick_Changetip , I just got the message from changetip bot about accounts being closed. Looks like it got USD/BTC backwards as it read

            BTC balance: 0.0
USD balance: $0.00416161

            But when I logged in I saw at the header 4,161.61 bits ($3.11)

            [–]AskChangeTip 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            4,161.61 bits is correct. It looks like the BTC and USD values got transposed in the email. Sorry for the confusion! Please go ahead and request a withdrawal at your earliest convenience.

            [–]voneiden 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Sure, no problem. Just would like to still clarify that it was a reddit pm from the bot, not email.

            Thanks for the reminder in any case!

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Yep - I screwed that up. Fixed now.

            [–]BitGiveOrg 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Thanks for a good service and fun way to work with bitcoin!

            Also a big thanks to those who donated/are donating to BitGive when closing their accounts! So far we have actually raised almost $3K!!! This is HUGE for us. We are a small team and this makes such a big difference!! <3

            Check out GiveTrack to see what we are up to! BETA launch next week! http://bitgivefoundation.org/bitcoin-charity-2-0-initiative/

            [–]ionised 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Apparently I've got $0.00020000 on me, somehow. Anyone want it? I ain't claiming it.

            [–]sterob 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Among other complications, the monthly costs to maintain the servers, services, and customer support to keep the site running are not insignificant.

            Can you say which parts cost the most and second most?

            Also you may want to make your bot show btc balance with more digit. I have 0.0059 btc and in the bot message i received about changetip closing down it showed.

            BTC balance: 0.0

            USD balance: $0.00597625

            [–]refto 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Thank you for your incredible journey into acqui-hire:

            https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

            My grand balance of $0.0003 will be staying put

            [–]ask_for_pgp 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            can I have sourcecode?

            [–]daveboy2000 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I apparently have a balance of $0.0001.

            Don't think it's worth withdrawing that..

            [–]jd328 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Wait...WHAT?!

            [–]Furreon 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

            I am extremely lazy and dont feel like logging in to close my account or withdraw my insignificant funds. Will you manually close all accounts that havent been closed when the time is up? For what its worth, my funds can be donated to charity or given to someone else, i dont have bitcoin nor do i want to get one just to be able to withdraw my 1/16th of a dollar.

            [–]Nick_ChangetipChangeTip Founder[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            It would take you less time to close the account and donate funds to charity than it did for you two write this message. We made it very easy to do it all in one step. :)

            [–]Furreon 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            I beg to differ as i only have mobile access currently and i dont remember my changetip password. So yeah not so fast now is it. Msybe when i have computer access but as of now, way tol much hassle.

            [–]StormkeeperXS 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I have a balance of £0.02...etc (33.33 bits), although evidently it's too small a balance to withdraw XD

            Even though I never got to properly use it (I almost forgot about it till I got the message about it, as I've been busy trying to get things back on track after a longish hiatus of sorts), I'd like to thank you for having the site in the first place, as it was definitely a good thing overall :)

            [–]epicluca 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

            What do I do with this? Apparently I have "100 bits"

            [–]magullo 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            I donated them, close your account and decide who you want to give them.

            [–]Etonet 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            thanks guys

            [–]GuyBanks 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Sad to hear. On the plus side, just found out I have $15 in there!

            [–]illutian 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            Well, shit...ChangeTip was one of the more 'connected' Tipping Services :\

            [–]TVM67 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

            i liked this concept, could have been a good way to get freelance work paid for. just didn't catch on :(

            [–]southernbenz 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

            Hi mods!

            This is the first I've heard of this, just now (30 mins ago) when I was sent the automated message to close my account and withdraw funds. The message says to do so "today." Well, its 4:22 pm local time and I'm on the road traveling for the rest of the day and probably can't withdraw the funds until late tonight or early tomorrow morning (after 12am, next day). In theory, when is the absolute last minute that I can make a successful withdrawal?

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