Just posted and on top, I have sent them a private message:

"Hello,

I recently joined flattr and I really love the idea.

However, the payment options you offer have a fundamental flaw: They are all too expensive as they charge huge fees.

Please have a look at BITCOINS, as this has all the advantages you need PLUS the benefit of 0% transaction costs. There are increasingly more people supporting it, see

http://forum.flattr.net/showthread.php?tid=550&pid=3492#pid3492


By when can I expect you to enable BITCOINS? I am sure that this is a big opportunity to get flattr even much more widespread.

Cheers!"



Their e-mail address is   forum@flattr.com

fine with me.. in the world of marketing, you'd execute it like:

0% transaction costs*


*most transactions have zero cost
 or

*with the use of ... most transactions have costs below 0.01%

Again that's simply not true. The standard bitcoin software can and often does pay the fee (for large transactions) if the node that hashes the transaction charges the fee (as the standard client will do if it is generating).

I'm happy with phrases like "Bitcoin transactions are near enough to free", but not phrases like "There is never a transaction fee".

Why cant bitmail be used for this?



http://www.bitcoinmail.com/

You flattr them and at the end of the month they get a bitmail with bitcoins attached. All they need to do is keep a track of the amounts then send an email. Everyone has an email address.


Im sure if the folks at bitmail could be contacted they would help plug flattr into the system. All flattr has to do is send emails ,how hard is that?lol

Bruce, that's the way to do it for sure. Well done for working that out.

There would be a fair bit of integration needed between Flattr and MtGox (because Flattr won't want "Gox Euros", they might prefer a monthly bank transfer or something) but there's a real synergy between Bitcoin and Flattr and it would be fabulous to see this happen.

https://www.bitcoinexchange.com/

Bitcoin Exchange already supports Euros. You can buy or sell them via sms or bank account within the EU so all it requires is for flattr to set up an account there.

As far as I can tell, BitcoinExchange doesn't seem to offer "accounts" of any kind.   They simply allow you to initiate a Sell Bitcoins transaction, and ask you for your banking details to wire money to you....  not to pay someone else.


I keep going to FiveGrinder, and I must be slow...   I still cannot figure out WHAT that site is....   What is it?   What is it about?   for?

That's one site that really really needs an "About" or "FAQ".

Hi Guys,

My name is Brian and I am one of the founders of the website http://www.youtipit.org. We started working on this project a few months back with the goal of turning everyone who contributes content online into an "Online street performer": the idea being if you see something you like, you tip it. Originally we tried using Euros/Dollars but it was impossible to get around the legal issues. Fortunately we discovered bitcoin and we now use it as our base tipping currency. Soon after we went live someone posted a tweet that we were "The flattr of Bitcoins". Of course we dont have any of the money or the backing that Flattr has but I guess we are trying to do something similar: reward people who do good things online.

On our site we have an automated bitcoin purchasing system (currently using paypal, this will have to change)  but users can also send in their coins to top up their accounts. After that they can tip their coins to other members or send the coins out of their account to an address of their choice. We allow the embedding of media such as video into their "Tip Jars" or Junkets as we call them.

I came across this topic recently and I feel some of you guys might be interested in checking it out. Please be aware that the site is far from perfect but it is operating quite well. I would be interested to know what you think and what suggestions you might have.

BrianC

Alexz: It's very easy. Bitcoin client use RPC ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29 ) so, basically, it goes like this:

- You should have a bitcoind running on your server.
- When an user want to send bitcoin to the server to credit his account, you ask bitcoind for a new address (you know, like 18Trqk3tKkF8vNoW6am5rx8K6wUSQAqo1q ).
- When the address receive some bitcoins and there's enough confirmation, you credit the account of that user (minus a fee if you want).

From that point, bitcoin is not used anymore. Each time an user "flatt" or "tip" another, you just change a number in database and change another one in the database of the receiving user.

- When an user want to withdraw, you simply ask him for his bitcoin address. Once received, you send to bitcoind a command asking to send XX money to the given address.

There's no rocket science involved at all. I was willing to develop this project with a Django website (and providing hosting and everything myself) but I have absolutely no CSS/JS/graphic skills, which make it very hard for me.