If you wanted to tip me in ETH now

If you wanted to tip me while reading this article, you could do it right here (what you see below is a live working form not a screenshot, try it):

And you could have done that in-line in-place to anyone across any of these websites as well:

And thousands more:

Pretty cool uh? Its very simple to setup.

I’m going to assume you don’t have an ENS Name ready (Names are friendly monikers for your ETH wallet). Let’s get one for free first:

Type in the name you want, and click “buy” under <yourname>.thisisme.eth (or if you want other extensions like buymecoffee.eth or atmedium.eth, get those for the equivalent of 1–2 USD)

Click on “Buy”, check “I agree” and then click on “Buy Now”

Then go to “Manage Tab”, scroll to the section “I want to receive ETH Payments / Tips!”

Type in your newly acquired name, your expected payment (in any currency), click on “Generate Link”

Copy the link you see below and paste on Medium, Reddit or places that support embed.ly.

Viola! you are done!

The page also has examples on how to embed this directly on your website.

This is a pretty light weight widget/service intended to solve the last mile problem, but if you are determined, there is nothing stopping you:

You could easily pre-fill the message with your order number, and quote the amount in USD and let the widget do the conversion for you. You can also lock down the amount and message fields (remember, determined coders can simply override this via javascript console, so this is just a soft recommendation for the user not to change them, if you want assurance, verify yourself if you got the right payment before offering service)

Hard part is how to get notified when a payment is made. For that you need to write some solidity code:

The widget calls Deposit(message) to send Ethers to the receiver wallet, so if you switch out your regular wallet with a smart contract that implements the below interface, you can watch it to get notified on payments, with the message

pragma solidity ^0.4.17;

/**
* Raises Deposit event if ethers was sent to it
*/
function () public payable;

}

Here is an un-audited implementation of such a wallet, dont blame me if you end up losing all your tip money:

pragma solidity ^0.4.17;

/**
* Wallet Contract that raises event on Deposit.
*/
contract DepositWallet {
// Logged when a new deposit is made.
event Deposit(address indexed sender, uint256 value, string message);
// Logged when a withdrawal is made.
event Withdrawn(address indexed sender, uint256 value);
address public owner;

/**
* Constructs a DepositWallet.
*/
function DepositWallet(address walletOwner) public {
owner = walletOwner;
}

/**
* Raises Deposit event if ethers was sent to it
*/
function () public payable {
Deposit(msg.sender, msg.value, ‘’);
}

}

By eliminating all the intermediate layers, and linking up the last mile:

Absolutely, first go check if it is correctly setup by typing your name in the “I want to setup a name for my Wallet!” section, the screen will guide you through any missing setup, and if you get all green, go ahead and use it.

Lets use as much of the ecosystem as possible folks!

This service is offered on an as-is basis, with no warranties, we are not liable for any loses/damages.

I’ll soon post code that you can use to monitor your wallet contract for deposits when I find time (not hard to find if you look around, anyways).

Think we are missing a feature that can make this more usable? Ping me at mano@enslisting.com

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