RFC: Micro-tipping Feature

[danfinlay]

I just learned from a thread on twitter about a Microtip Meta Tag Specification.

This spec invites devs to add a tag to their websites like this:

  <meta name="microtip" content="Lb78JDGxMcih1gs3AirMeRW6jaG5V9hwFZ" data-currency='ltc'>

The idea is that any page you visit that adheres to this standard would be automatically tipped a set amount you specify on your visit.

Looks like Brave wants to adopt it this week, too!

A couple different ways we could go about it:

• You only auto-tip when unlocked
• You fund a special auto-tip account that stays unlocked.

Some UX options:

• Leave it on all the time by default (clearly wrong to me).
• Leave it hidden in settings. (a bit cowardly for a feature we choose to implement)
• On setup, or for users who have never specified, we show a splash screen "would you like to auto-tip web sites?", allows setting currency value. (like 5 cents)
  • Has the benefit that it provides the user an explicit screen to set desired currency, without ever deliberately visiting the settings.

As the microtip standard supports specifying a division of the tip, I'd be curious of nice single-tx ways we could achieve this. Could we make an auto-tip contract, that allows submitting an array of account-ratio tuples?