We have a NuBits tipbot at reddit!

[woolly_sammoth]

It’s based on AlTcoinTipbot which does support Peercoin.

I’ve just done a load of work to tailor the stats etc. to NuBits only but as long as you don;t mind that for a while, I can add in Peercoin support if it’s needed?

[Sentinelrv]

That would be great if it could be done, because we don’t seem to have anybody else willing to setup a Peercoin bot.

[masterOfDisaster]

This would be so desperately needed to spread information about Peercoin on Reddit in a manner that is expected to be welcome by most who receive tips

[woolly_sammoth]

I’ve had a look at it and I think it would be best to have separate bots for Peercoin and NuBits.
i’ve done a bit of work tailoring the nbtip bot to have the correct 1NBT = $1 exchange rate, adjusting tip keywords etc. and adding Peercoin in just confuses that.
It would also be better from a security point of view to have the Peerunity and Nu wallets running separately. From what I remember the original Altcointipbot was discontinued as the maintainer had a hard time keeping up with different coins in the same installation.

The AltcointipBot that nbtip is based on supports Peercoin out of the box and is really easy to set up. I’ve got nbtip running on a virtual machine from terminal.com. it costs $0.031 per day for the server that nbtip runs from so I haven’t even made a dent in the $5 that they gave me free for signing up! (they accept Bitcoin as payment too)

I think it would serve Redditors better to have a bot username specific to Peercoin too (+/uppctip instead of +/u/nbtip). It can have a peercoin specific wiki and stats too which helps avoid any confusion for noobies.

I’m happy to help set it up. @Sentinelrv or @masterOfDisaster, if either on of you signs up at terminal.com and gets the $5 free for a new account, and set up a ‘mini’ terminal, you can grant me access to it and I can run the setup. We’ll also need a new reddit user with a decent name for peercoin tipping and a new subreddit for the bot created by the new user.

Once it’s set up, I would prefer to hand control of the peercoin bot over to one of you guys (hence gettiung you to sign up at terminal.com). I’m happy to step in a help if it goes wrong but there’s lots to be done on NuBot at the moment.

How does that all sound?

[masterOfDisaster]

That sounds great!
As far as I understand the installation of the bot as well as earning enough link karma (to get rid of processing captchas) require some work, but afterwards the operation is expected to be quite smooth.
I don’t like having a wallet on a server that is out of my physical control, but I fear there’s no feasible approach to make it other than using a virtual server (where the virtualization doesn’t make it better in terms of security…).
Let me look into the details before I dive into a PPC tipbot.
But thank you for the NBT tip bot and your offer to support!

[woolly_sammoth]

pleasure. The wallet is encrypted and it could run from anywhere so if it’s an issue it could run on it’s own dedicated box with total separation from the bot itself

[Yurizhai]

@woolly_sammoth If you think the bot is ready, I was planning on doing a giveaway either tonight or tomorrow.

I’m looking for feedback on how I should go about this. I basically just wanted to announce NuBits now has a tip bot, and give a brief description of what it is to those who are unfamiliar - without sounding like soulless promotion… I expect there to be a lot of questions, and probably some bad mouthing.

I was thinking of a thread title something along the lines of " NuBits now has a tipbot! Come check out the world’s first stable cryptocurrecy, where 1 NBT = $1.00; always."

Anyone have any ideas or thoughts?

[masterOfDisaster]

I think you have already outlined some of the main reactions and I appreciate that you don’t want to go like a bull at a gate doing soulless promotion.
It sounds like you will do it very well!
Thank you!

[woolly_sammoth]

Hi.
The bot has been running well and entirely unaided. I think it could be ready for a giveaway.
There have been a few more tweaks but only really to the format of the confirmations and private messages. there’s now a tag line on the bottom of every message that links to the NuBits website and another that links to Coin Market Cap to see the $1 value. As a vehicle to spread word of NuBits I think it will be successful.

If you are going to be doing a giveaway, give me a heads up as I can make sure I’m close(ish) to a computer in case anything does blow up. (it shouldn’t but you can never be too careful!).
Which subreddit do you think you’d be doing the giveaway on? It would be worth doing a few test tips before hand to make sure the bot sees them. The bot has Reddit Gold now so it shouldn’t be an issue but, again, good to make sure.

[Sentinelrv]

Good idea adding in the website and other data. That should help bring people here.

[Yurizhai]

Ok I was thinking around 2-4 hours from this post.

[woolly_sammoth]

I’ll be asleep.
I’ve been playing with the bot all day and it has behaved itself. I’ve been tipping on new subReddits to and haven’t needed to enter a Captcha.
I’m happy for you to give it a go as i’m 98% sure it’ll be fine. Pop a link to the post back here when you’ve started and I’ll join in in the morning.

[Sentinelrv]

@masterOfDisaster, I’ve sent you a PM regarding the Peercoin tipbot.

[Yurizhai]

Sent +info and a 1 NBT tip, over an hour ago, haven’t gotten anything back from the bot. So I think I will wait for a time where you are available.

[woolly_sammoth]

Doh!. I cursed it!
It’s running now and the commands should be getting confirmed. I’ll look into the issue today.

Edit: The pending bot requests have gone through successfully. It would seem that the terminal I was monitoring the bot progress with hung up and ended the bot process. I’ve started the bot in a different way now that should prevent that happening again.

[Yurizhai]

Well about 80 NBT I sent from CCEDK is not showing up in my bot address, probably due to the 0.5.1 update thing.

I created a ticket with CCEDK but who knows how long it will take, giveaway suspended

[woolly_sammoth]

I’m having similar issues with a deposit into CCEDK. I suspect they are running a 0.4 nu daemon.
I’ve put in a support request too so will help to monitor the situation and provide them information if they require it.
As soon as they upgrade, the transactions should start coming through (if that is the issue)

Update: I got a reply from the CCEDK support and my deposit has gone through.
@Yurizhai, has your withdrawal come through yet?

Edit. just checked the bot and it looks like you balance is correct

[Yurizhai]

Yep! Everything is all good.

[Yurizhai]

Posted a giveaway here. Would appreciate a few upvotes to get it off the ground! Thanks

[CoinGame]

I would just like to commend @Yurizhai for stepping out of their way to promote NuBits with their own wallet. They’ve tipped over 42 NBT to strangers in the giveaway thread. It’s been a monumental success. The post has been at the top of /r/cryptocurrency for over a day, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.

For comparison… I’ve been tipping people .10 NBT each. Yurizhai has tipped everyone 2 NBT each.

I’m very glad we have so many passionate and generous members of this community. I hope we can continue this spirit going forward and attract more people of the same persuasion.