Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips?

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:27AM from the just-keeping-them-backed-up-on-the-internet dept.

jfruh writes "Tip4Commit is a new service that allows anyone to link a tip for a developer to GitHub commits for open source projects. The tips are denominated in Bitcoin — and it appears that some developers aren't interested, with almost 40% of the total value tipped going uncollected. One dev who hasn't collected his $136 in tips is Linux inventor Linus Torvalds. It's not clear if the devs who aren't collecting their tips are opposed to the concept of tipping on open source projects or just don't want to deal with Bitcoin."

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Value by Joce640k · 2014-01-30 02:30 · Score: 5, Interesting

$136 is an insult. I'd ignore it, too.

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Some developers don't know by Chemisor · 2014-01-30 02:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

Gee, a service I have never heard of before is saying that maybe I have a valuable stash of bitcoins given to me by grateful users of my OSS project and that for a small fee they would be happy to liberate it for me for a tidy profit. Where have I heard this before?