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Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter
- nik736 8y agoThat landing page is so bad that I don't even understand which problem it is trying to solve.
- jacob_rezi 8y agoGreat color choices tho
- omeid2 8y agoOne of my favorite lines ever is from impress.js' documentation: > impress.js may not help you if you have nothing interesting to say ;) Now, great colors are so, too.
- amasad 8y agoI want to congratulate the creator Sergio for building on Bitcoin. Whereas others would create an altcoin, ICO, make a ton of claims and then... nothing comes out of it. The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure. Now with LN leading the way we're going to see mainstream applications being built on BTC. Bravo Sergio for leading the way :clap:
- fabiandesimone 8y agoI'm not trying to create controversy but: "The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure." So you know this for a FACT? Looks like Crypto is not stagnated by any means (price might be suppressed) if you look at the news, it seems crypto as a whole is moving forward at an accelerated pace.
- amasad 8y agoIt'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.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoBitcoin is not suitable for actual transactions though, with its low transaction rate.
- amasad 8y agoHence Lightning Network. If you look at the history of innovation you'll find that it's all layered. The internet is a prime example of layering. Why should we expect Bitcoin to be any different?
- 0xferruccio 8y agoLN 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)
- maeln 8y agoI like the comment of Peter Sunde on it : https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1098485289528500229 https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1098485289528500229 Seriously, what are the advantage of Tippin compare to a service that use real word currencies ? Anonymity ?
- amasad 8y agoMoney over IP is quite impressive. Something ideological must be clouding your judgement if you can't see it.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoI don't understand what you mean, are you saying normal electronic bank transfers actually involve someone moving a bag of coins from my bank to Ireland?
- amasad 8y agoI mean an internet-native money is something groundbreaking. The kind of thing that your average forum troll will off handedly dismiss.
- omeid2 8y ago"Money over IP", so like Credit Card? PayPal? and many other money services?
- chippy 8y agoThree clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto 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 small link, right at the bottom). Then you will see that it's actually what this site is about and the first mention of Twitter.
- progval 8y ago> 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)
- amasad 8y agoI 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?
- trymas 8y agoIt'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.
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- oarsinsync 8y agohttp://n-gate.com/ 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
- tobiaswk 8y agoThis 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.
- johnyzee 8y ago"It doesn't work." <-- "It's still in development! Be patient!" "It will never work." <-- "It's already in production! You can use it right now!"
- VMG 8y agoIt 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 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.
- Ayesh 8y agoThe "buy me a taco" message is more prominent than what this service really does and how.