Developers at Twitter are working on a new feature that will allow users to accept tips in Bitcoin via the Tip Jar function the social media platform unveiled earlier this year.
Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s product lead, first indicated the feature was in progress on Wednesday when he commented on a screenshot tweeted out by app developer Alessandro Paluzzi. The screenshot appeared to show Twitter using The Lightning Network, a technology that helps secure payment transfers, to allow Twitter users to use Bitcoin when sending tips.
Paluzzi wrote in her original tweet that Twitter, “is working on the ability to receive tips in #Bitcoin.” Later Wednesday, Beykpour quote-tweeted Paluzzi’s screenshot, adding a lightning bolt emoji next to another that said, “soon.”
On Thursday, Paluzzi posted another tweet that featured three new screengrabs. In the first, Twitter’s Tip Jar feature appeared to offer two new options: the ability for users to send tips by copying a Bitcoin address or one with…
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