THELOGICALINDIAN - An aboriginal date Redditonly appliance has afresh launched aural the amusing media behemothic acceptance users to tip anniversary added baby amounts of bitcoin This chargeless and simple arrangement uses no added website or annual and was created to alter the nowretired Changetip service
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A Changetip Replacement
On Friday evening, a Reddit user called ‘Minitip’ (u/Minitip) announced a new “free bitcoin angled account whose alone interface is Reddit”. The arrangement was developed by Reddit user Cobos (/u/Cobosbfb) who said:
Using Minitip, Reddit users can tip anniversary other in bitcoin by acknowledging to their posts or comments. Everything is done application Reddit’s interface and there is no third affair website 
to appointment or annual to create, Cobos explained. The abridgement of an off-site annual keeps Minitip quick and clandestine to use.
The account is accessible for testing now but Cobos recommends using it with caution, citation that the account is in its infancy. “Please use with caution, at absolutely your own risk, and accomplish abiding you alone drop baby amounts if you accept to use it”, he wrote. He encouraged users to acquaintance him if they begin any bugs or accept suggestions for improvement. Commenting on his system, he noted:
Using Minitip
Basic Commands
While there is no annual to set up, at the time of writing, there are six commands with which users can administer their Minitip usage. All of them assignment by sending a Reddit clandestine bulletin to ‘u/Minitip’ with one 
of the commands in the bulletin body. The accountable of the bulletin can be annihilation but it cannot be larboard blank. A few abnormal afterwards the bulletin is sent, the sender will accept a bulletin aback from Minitip with advice based on the command used. Bitcoin.com activated the arrangement out and it formed accomplished for us. Below are the six commands.
Tipping
When application the ‘Balance’ command, Minitip will acknowledgment a bulletin advertence the user’s annual antithesis in $.25 and dollar equivalent. It will additionally accord the user a different Bitcoin 
address controlled by Minitip to be acclimated for top-ups.
Once some $.25 are deposited into the Bitcoin address, the Reddit user can tip addition user by acknowledging to a column or animadversion and accounting “/u/Minitip [number of $.25 to tip]”, explains the Minitip instructions. For example, accounting “/u/Minitip 1000 bits” in acknowledgment to a user’s animadversion will accelerate that user a bitcoin tip of 1000 bits.
Minitip currently accuse “a collapsed miner’s fee of 100 $.25 (~$0.10)” for anniversary tip sent, which is deducted from the tipper’s balance. “Though in the accepted Bitcoin altitude this is a bit low, we feel that this strikes a acceptable antithesis for baby tips actuality and there that are by no agency time-sensitive”, Cobos described.
Receiving Tips
Tips accustomed are anon deposited into a claimed Bitcoin abode which the user defined by application the [address] command. If no abode is specified, the tips accustomed will abide in the arrangement until it is acclimated to tip others or a abandonment abode has been assigned. Once the almsman specifies a claimed Bitcoin address, “all approaching tips will go anon to the abode you specified”, Cobos explained.
On top of the crisis of accident a few bits from this actuality a new and abstinent system, addition abeyant botheration is that the character of the developer, Cobos, is unknown. Reddit user Francispouliot wrote, “what are guarantees that you artlessly won’t run-off with the funds? It’s not like you’re an barter and you created your Reddit annual 6 hours ago”.
“You’re appropriate and authoritative it as arguable as accessible is the best way, aloof like with Bitcoin itself”, Cobos responded, abacus that “I’ve been aggravating to anticipate of means to accomplish it 100% peer-to-peer so that no funds are stored on our end at all. Might apparatus article like multisig in future, as continued as it’s still convenient”.
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