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You mean something just like: http://www.YouTipIt.org ? (add a tip badge on your site and accept bitcoins)

Here's a site with a YouTipIt badge: http://www.BitcoinMiner.com

YouTipIt's fee is 0.01 BTC per tip, subtracted from the tip amount.

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There's also a Hacker News / Reddit / Digg type of site, where you pay bitcoins to post, vote, and reply. But then you earn from anyone who subsequently votes or replies to your contributions. It's live now: http://www.witcoin.com

Witcoin is fascinating; thanks for the link. But it seems like it could make trolls very rich.

Only if they are very good trolls :)

> seeing this packaged into a embeddable library really makes me want to do something like flattr but just using bitcoins (and not taking a cut. this would be just for fun)

Please, please do. I love the flattr idea, but it would need a lot more donors to have a significant effect. And it turns out most donors aren't ready to use a service that takes 10% of their donations.

The same idea for free or almost, which could be implemented with bitcoins to avoid transaction fees, could be a huge success. And I'd donate to its creator :)

I would like to subscribe to the verbose version of your newsletter :) That sounds very interesting.