Ripple’s XRP Tip Bot Now Works with Coil ‘STEAM’ Payments Protocol

The XRP community’s favorite tip bot just received another important update. As announced by XRP Tip Bot creator Wietse Wind, the tool now supports Coil.

Coil is a company created by Ripple’s ex-CTO and InterLedger Protocol creator Stefan Tomas. The goal of Coil is to manage micropayments through the InterLedger Protocol, allowing sites to support themselves with micropayments and fewer advertisements.

By integrating XRP Tip Bot with Coil, users of the XRP Tip Bot will be able to “STREAM” payments in XRP.

STREAM is a protocol for InterLedger Protocol standing for Streaming Transport for the Real-time Exchange of Assets and Messages.

When you “STREAM” payments, you’re sending a small and continuous flow of cryptocurrency. In this case, with XRP Tip Bot, the payments are so small they’re measured in drops, which is the smallest possible division of XRP.

You might begin STREAMing payments when browsing a website, for example. Instead of actively paying for content on the internet – say, by sending the developer a $5 tip – you’re passively paying for content as long as you’re browsing a website.

You can top up your Coil balance using credit cards, XRP, or other cryptocurrencies. This means that even though it’s called XRP Tip Bot, you can now theoretically integrate other cryptocurrencies into the platform.

Coin uses a flat $10 per month fee for XRP donations. You can top up this amount if you donate more than $10 in the billing period.

The Integration of Coil Boosts Transaction Speed to “Trillions Per Second”

By integrating with Coil, XRP Tip Bot can now make payments through channels.

That’s an important development because it introduces the possibility of generating trillions of transactions per second.

The streaming payments feature is also seen as a big deal by the crypto community. It opens the possibility of launching something like a pay-per-stream service, for example, where users can watch one second of video and pay for that one second of video.

Similarly, a user could pay for a single article on a website instead of a paywall for the entire site or a newspaper subscription.

As reported by AMBCrypto, which interviewed XRP Tip Bot creator Wietse Wind, he’s excited about the integration with Coil:

“Coil will allow content creators to earn when people are viewing / reading / visiting their creations. Users have a flat fee subscription. Making it possible to send little packets of value from one user to another. Not even a special client required.”

 

XRP Tip Bot Users Now Have a Personal InterLedger Protocol Address One Click Away

Another exciting development with Coil’s XRP Tip Bot integration is that existing XRP Tip Bot users now have a personal InterLedger Protocol address immediately accessible to them.

That means, by extension, that users of Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and other XRP Tip Bot platforms all have ILP addresses that are one click away. That could bring STREAMing payments to the masses.

These are exciting times for the XRP Tip Bot community. To learn more about XRP Tip Bot or to access the network today, visit online at XRPTipBot.com.