monero-tip-bot.md

layout: cp
title: A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram
author: HAH! Sun (omani)
date: July 10, 2019
amount: 13
milestones:
  - name: Collect Feature Requests and Prototype the Telegram bot
    funds: 1
    done: 1 October 2019
    status: finished
  - name: Implement Features
    funds: 5
    done: 1 October 2019
    status: finished
  - name: Intensive Testing of Bot on Stagenet Within Monero Telegram Groups / Bug Fixing
    funds: 4
    done: 1 October 2019
    status: finished
  - name: Delivering Bot to Monero Project Team
    funds: 0
    done: 17 October 2019
    status: finished
  - name: Maintenance and Support
    funds: 3
    done: 17 October 2019
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 1 October 2019
    amount: 10
  - date: 18 October 2019
    amount: 3

Monero Tipping Bot

I would like to put forward a proposal for the development of a Monero tipping bot. I am a code contributor to the Monero Project and author of the Go Monero RPC Client and a member of the Monero Ecosystem and I believe that I have all the necessary skills to complete this development.

Like many others, I enjoy using Telegram on a daily basis. I am an active member in various monero groups on Telegram and I have noticed the huge interest in a Monero tip bot. So here I am, putting myself forward with a proposal to develop, and deliver, the first ever Monero tip bot for Telegram.

The Proposal and Milestones

I aim to combine my Monero RPC Client and the Monero Wallet RPC with the official Telegram Bot API. The Bot will be written in Golang, as is the above mentioned Monero RPC Client of mine that I will be using. The Bot will be group-enabled, publicly available and accessable in Telegram. Users can use the bot to tip each other from within or outside a group. Users will be able to receive a notification upon sending or receiving a tip when they have started the bot (in a PM, which is standard practice in Telegram).

What can this bot do?

This bot is the first of its kind and effectively a Monero wallet for telegram. A telegram user can receive and send Moneros from this wallet using this bot. Nothing will be stored on the server (where the bot is running), except the wallet, of course. Other than that, no user data, personal information or any other personal data will be stored. Everything happens on-chain and thus no backend database is required. You can tip other users, friends and people in groups, set up giveaways and do lots of other cool things, like sending monero to regular wallet addresses!

The bot is group-friendly, meaning it won't spam the group with messages. Most of the wallet relevant information will be sent to the user via PM.

Milestones