ChangeTip Now Lets Users Redirect Tips to Charity

By Stan Higgins

Micropayments startup ChangeTip is launching a new feature that allows users to automatically direct any tips they receive to charitable causes.

The US-based bitcoin company has initially partnered with the BitGive Foundation, enabling users to pass on bitcoins they receive to support the organization directly.

The 'tip-redirect' function will see more options and improved functionality as development progresses over coming weeks and months, according to ChangeTip.

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ChangeTip Adding Facebook And Slack

By Ian DeMartino

Update: Slack Integration appears to be working, as mentioned by a commentor.

Since ChangeTip burst onto the scene in November, giving users a way to easily tip bitcoin to even non-bitcoin users, Facebook has been the obvious addition and everyone knew it would be coming eventually.

2015, as it turns out, is that “eventually” and tipping on Facebook has been rolled out to select users, with wider release expected in the coming days. An announcement on their blog is expected shortly.

With around 1.35 billion active users according to Statista, Facebook obviously increases ChangeTip's potential user base. The use case for ChangeTip is similar to Twitter, give Bitcoin users an easy way to tip content creators they enjoy, even if those creators don't know anything about Bitcoin themselves.

Despite rushed reports that stated functionality is working now, we have verified that Slack functionality is not working as of yet, and Facebook functionality is only available to select users.

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