The printing press

the steam locomotive

the apple II

These are inventions that have moved the world forward

these are inventions that changed people’s lives

it is with these inventions in mind that I give you

ProTip

ProTip is the killer app for bitcoin. (http://protip.is)

The media has been looking all over for the killer app for bitcoin,

but they’ve been looking in the wrong places.

They’ve been looking at businesses

at startups.

But bitcoin didn’t come from a business.

Bitcoin didn’t come from a startup.

Bitcoin came from open source.

ProTip is an open source plugin for your web browser that allows you to passively reward creators for the content you enjoy.

Let’s break this sentence down, because it’s a big one.

Pro Tip is open source. There is no tracking and no big data collection. There’s no shareholders to reward or a reason to sell out the project. If there’s a problem with ProTip, it will be forked and the fork will win. If you have a new idea for ProTip, you can start coding today. The code is right there on GitHub.

ProTip allows you to passively reward creators.

Passively. We believe this is the key. No one has time to manually tip every video they enjoy. To manually tip every article they read. Not only do you have take the time to tip them, you have to decide how much to tip them, meanwhile carrying the cognitive load that you’re giving your money away. ProTip solves this problem by locally monitoring your browsing habits and rewarding based upon time. It also gives you the option to subscribe to your favorite sites.

and finally Reward creators. ProTip does not take any cuts or percentages from the creator’s reward. ProTip allows the creators to choose their own bitcoin wallet, whether from a centralized institution like Coinbase, a more decentralized model like Blockchain.info or even from their mobile phone with Airbitz or a paper wallet. ProTip is not another middleman trying to get a cut of the creator’s reward. ProTip is a open source and free protocol designed to provide the micropayments infrastructure that the internet has always needed and to do it securely and transparently using bitcoin to send value.

I am very proud of the great work performed by the ProTip team and deeply honored to be a part of this project. I’d also like to thank you, the viewers, the donors, who supported this project financially and helped spread the word about ProTip by commenting, tweeting and much much more. Your support made this project possible, because we all believe in the same thing. Content creators should be rewarded for their work in a secure automated way using the digital currency Bitcoin. And that is what we have created today.

I give you.... Pro Tip.

Downloadable today at http://protip.is