First off: Yes. The premise is that you can tip people without their knowledge, "crowd-sourced genius grants." https://www.gittip.com/about/ https://www.gittip

First off: Yes. The premise is that you can tip people without their knowledge, "crowd-sourced genius grants." https://www.gittip.com/about/ https://www.gittip.com/about/ I see a few differences with Kachinga: - With Gittip, recipients receive the full face value of their tips. The donor is responsible for credit card fees. - The fees are minimal: $0.10 + 3.9%. Right now I'm using Samurai for payments, and they charge me $0.10 + 2.3%. My margins are thin. - My margins are not going to be "my" margins. If this gets traction, we're going to organize it as a cooperative, not a corporation. The plan is for everyone who tips through the site to be a member of the cooperative, the purpose of which will be for the escrow of gifts to individuals. - Gittip tipjars are tied to people, not companies or websites (you can currently send tips to Github organization accounts, but that's ticketed to fix: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/4 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/4). I can imagine changing that but for now it's designed for people, natural persons.