I'm researching The History of Zapping for history month, and zapping is tipping. Which, woe is me, has me researching the traits humans evolved that led to tipping. Spoiler alert: the traits that led to tipping share a root with those that led to monies (ie ledgers). Namely, our symbolic memory, autonomy, and coordination desire.
I was going to ask "Why you do or don't tip?" but ime philosophical questions are a little clumsy to answer. So, instead: what's the most memorable tip you've given or received?
Mine was our friends renovating our cabinets before we left California. It's memorable because it was the largest tip I've given. They gave us the "friend discount" but even their full price would've been a great price relative to the other quotes we sought. So we tipped them the difference.
classy move
Bitcoin specific, when Chaincode Labs gave me about a year worth of income with no strings attached because they liked what I was doing.
Though getting ~$41k and counting to spend on donations to the Ukrainian military is honestly even more memorable. If less clearly a "tip".
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In the early days, I received a message from a friend of a friend that needed help with a p2sh script. Took me a few minutes to point out what they were doing wrong. They tipped me a whole coin for that and I objected because it was, despite "the dip" in exchage rate at the time, not representative, but they insisted.
Some years later a whole coin of mine funded a part-time FOSS dev for half a year. Took forever to pay it forward simply because I've always found it very hard to find the right people to fund with no strings attached.
The one which I did a deep dive into Nakamoto Satoshi’s name not only garnered me the most zaps, but also fed me psychological dividends.
Most memorable was a bartender at this tech facility saw him a year later after price skyrocketed and he got it 👍 by then
I've been blown away by the zaps on some posts I made:
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I was working nights as help for a caterer. But I was fairly new and not a bartender and hadn't done catering before so I wasn't really expecting anything in the way of tips for the night. But after we had done all the packing up one of the bartenders came over to me and handed me a little was of cash. He said it was my share for the night. Blew my mind.
Maybe its totally normal behavior but I still remember the guy's name.
As a student I took a job doing food deliveries by bike. My rosy expectstions for the job were quickly dashed when I had to work through a blizzard. Uphill riding in 3 inches of snow wasn't even the worst of it. To my surprise, when I delivered a to some suit in a downtown office, slightly miffed, I says to him, I says, "you know the tip is not included." He responded by throwing a dollar on the floor.
I peddled off the job mid-shift.
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Nice!
Probably can find a more memorable one if I think longer, but off the top of my head a recent case where I intently tip gladly as a matter of principle is at Starbucks (of all places)
Reason: service is always great, they ask how you're doing etc. it's nothing exceptional or mind-blowing, just that the bar is so low around here (cough Tim Hortons cough) that it's a breath of fresh air.
For the US folks: imagine getting your coffee or burger at the DMV for years then eventually going to Chick Fil A for the first time