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Three clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto

and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn't care about initially).

First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer).

Then work your way down the page to the link "Want to Tip? Get started with Lightning Network" (Very small link, right at the bottom).

Then you will see that it's actually what this site is about and the first mention of Twitter.

> First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer).

And that button is only clickable with a mouse (because it's a div with an onClick property)

I hate to break it to you guys but no one comes to hackernews for web design critique. It's much more productive to discuss the actual technology. A solo developer built something pretty cool and interesting and all you care about is the web design?

It's cool project, though I very often see critique (or tips) on web design.

Sometimes it's very simple bugs/problems authors have overlooked, sometimes it's just not very good UX (e.g. open a webpage and i does not answer what? why? how? and how much?).

Very often top comment can be a link or explanation which answers all these questions, that index page does not answer.

In this case we have link to the relevant part - which IMO should be the index page.

http://n-gate.com/ describes their hacker news weekly summaries as 'webshit weekly'. Read into that (along with all the other comments on this thread) what you will

Apparently author would like someone to buy him a taco more than he would like to show his project. :) ..... or it's a smart way to get money while users are testing out this tipping service.

I like the comment of Peter Sunde on it : https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1098485289528500229

Seriously, what are the advantage of Tippin compare to a service that use real word currencies ? Anonymity ?

Money over IP is quite impressive. Something ideological must be clouding your judgement if you can't see it.

I don't understand what you mean, are you saying normal electronic bank transfers actually involve someone moving a bag of coins from my bank to Ireland?

I mean an internet-native money is something groundbreaking. The kind of thing that your average forum troll will off handedly dismiss.

"Money over IP", so like Credit Card? PayPal? and many other money services?

Nope. I mean money as in actual wealth. As in a store of value money.

You mean value that fluctuates "randomly" on the daily in what was proven to be a manipulated market? A market plagued by corrupt, insecure or amateur on-ramps like Quadriga, Bitfinex or MtGox? Anonymity goes out the door as soon as you get verified on one of these on and off ramps.

You cannot have a store of value if the only value that is created is a speculative agreement. The same critique that went behind fiat currency no longer being backed by gold applies just the same to cryptocurrencies. Turnkey solutions like stablecoins essentially mean you are now forced into using them as a pseudo bank and counting on them to not be handling fractional reserves at any point in time.

Crypto can have its uses in time, but it is not the emperor's new financial panacea that many people hope it is.

Regardless, the project is pretty cool and so is its execution.

The companies you mention are only money services to politically aligned customers.

Uncensorable. Your politics or the politics of your leaders are irrelevant.

This is a beta project, just like the Lightning Network itself, so losing small amounts is a possibility.

I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.

"It doesn't work." <-- "It's still in development! Be patient!"

"It will never work." <-- "It's already in production! You can use it right now!"

It actually works pretty well whenever I use it. They are just responsible hackers and are pointing out that it is not production quality yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

That landing page is so bad that I don't even understand which problem it is trying to solve.

Great color choices tho

One of my favorite lines ever is from impress.js' documentation:

    > impress.js may not help you if you have nothing interesting to say ;)

Now, great colors are so, too.

The "buy me a taco" message is more prominent than what this service really does and how.

I want to congratulate the creator Sergio for building on Bitcoin. Whereas others would create an altcoin, ICO, make a ton of claims and then... nothing comes out of it.

The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure. Now with LN leading the way we're going to see mainstream applications being built on BTC.

Bravo Sergio for leading the way :clap:

I'm not trying to create controversy but:

"The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure."

So you know this for a FACT?

Looks like Crypto is not stagnated by any means (price might be suppressed) if you look at the news, it seems crypto as a whole is moving forward at an accelerated pace.

It's all fluff and nothing of substance. Add to that all the 51% attacks. Ethereuem World Computer couldn't handle some kitties.

Come on. Bitcoin is here. Bitcoin works. Bitcoin is battle tested.

Obviously anyone choosing to altcoin is doing it as a quick-get-rich scheme and not actually trying to build something useful.

Bitcoin is not suitable for actual transactions though, with its low transaction rate.

Hence Lightning Network. If you look at the history of innovation you'll find that it's all layered. The internet is a prime example of layering. Why should we expect Bitcoin to be any different?

LN is a good solution imo. Bitcoin transactions only happen when opening and closing a channel (which is kind of like moving money from a savings account to a prepaid card) after that you can do as many payments as you want. Eventually I guess Bitcoin will move to having larger blocks, but that largely depends on the world getting faster connections for node syncing and hard disks price going down (to store the actual blockchain)

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