Quote from: Mastsetad on January 18, 2017, 05:11:52 PM

Quote from: Superhitech on January 18, 2017, 07:05:04 AM

The thing is, you haven't offered any product or service for free that could incentive users to tip you.

I definitely think tipping is a good thing, and I try to tip whenever someone offers a free service that is useful and I use a lot. I don't know about spreading the word about BTC, because if someone accepts tips with BTC, they probably know about bitcoin beforehand. On the contrary, I think bitcoin tipping is very useful to reward people for offering a free service.

Though tipping is a good thing and i also feel it is worth doing if someone does something appreciable. But now a days we can hardly find someone tipping a person for doing something just because of the price of bitcoin, people even try to save the smallest parts of their possession so that they can earn more profit in coming time.

Yes, that's definitely sad and I wish people would tip more. I can relate to both sides, as sometimes I do tip people and sometimes I don't because I feel that I want to keep some of my BTC in my wallet. On the contrary, I think more people would be comfortable with tipping with bitcoin as opposed to PayPal due to simplicity of bitcoin.

I think an alternative to taking tips would to maybe charge a small amount for a script, or put ads in whatever service you're operating.

Quote from: Karpeles on January 19, 2017, 08:46:46 AM

I don't know about Bitcoin tips, but some free services trust on tips and donations, and they still are somehow able to pay for the developers.

Like adblock and wayback machine, that have dedicated staff and survive because of donations

So tipping works, at least if your intention is run a service and be helpful to others, and not get loads of money and get rich

That's very true, but we don't know if they make most of their tips off bitcoin or PayPal. If they did release statistics, it would be great if someone could link me to it.