<h2>How/Why
<h3>Post written by XTRABYTES Team Member nrocy
<p dir="auto"><span>I’m relatively new to the team and have been working primarily on the XCITE UI. While chatting to <a href="/@molton">@molton in the <a href="/trending/developers"> #developers channel he asked if anyone had any experience with tip bots.
<p dir="auto">The motivations behind creating the tipbot were to:
<ul>
<li>Make the discord more exciting for the community
<li>Incentivize people to do good and help out since they might get a few XBY as a tip
<li>Promote use of XBY as a micro-currency for communities
<li>Potentially extensible for use on the Testnet to help send XBY around to testers without having to share addresses
<p dir="auto">This seems to work well for other communities so we figured let’s give it a shot.
<h2>What we did
<p dir="auto">The current XTRABYTES wallet/network is very similar to that of bitcoin so we were able to modify a <a href="https://github.com/BitcoinAmiens/dogecoin-tipping-bot" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">dogecoin tipbot for use with XBY fairly easily. This gave us both a stable codebase to work from, and helped shortcut the development work.
<h2>How it works
<ul>
<li>The bot is linked to an instance of the community wallet
<li>Any tips sent to you will automatically create an account on the wallet linked to your unique discord user id (you don’t have to do anything to start receiving tips)
<li>Deposits and withdrawals are all handled 100% by the wallet
<h2>Features
<p dir="auto">People can tip one another in the channel using <code>/tipbot tip @user <amount><br />
You can private message with the bot to:
<ul>
<li>Request your current balance
<li>Withdraw your balance to your XBY wallet
<li>Request an address to ‘load up’ XBY that you can use to tip others.
<li>Because tips are intra-wallet transfers, there is no 1 XBY network fee, you just pay that fee when you withdraw.
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<h2>Rollout
<p dir="auto">We’ve been testing the tipbot internally to iron out the kinks over the past week or so<br />
We’ll be starting a new channel to beta test with our <a href="http://join.xtrabytes.chat/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Discord community.<br />
The bot will be hooked up to a testnet wallet and we’ll ask people to try to break it so we can ensure it’s ready for use with the XTRABYTES network.
<h2>Future plans
<p dir="auto">Given enough interest and assuming no technical barriers, we’ll potentially extend this capability to the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/xtrabytes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">subreddit and <a href="https://t.me/xtrabytes_official" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">telegram groups.
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