If anything, we know Twitter’s CEO is a major cryptocurrency stan — which means it’s just a matter of time before the digital currency is introduced into the social media app’s Tip Jar feature.
In May, Twitter announced it’s adding a mighty useful feature called the Tip Jar — this allowed normal users to ‘tip’ other normal users if they found their content interesting or helpful. But up until now, they’ve only really been in the form of regular money. New reports point to bitcoin integration coming in the future sometime.
Tips, but make it decentralised
A leak by researcher and app developer Alessandro Paluzzi reveals that Twitter is working to include bitcoin functionality soon. The screenshot details how the social platform will harness the power of the Lightning Network and Strike, a crypto trading app to allow its users the ability to pay creators.
Apparently, the Lightning Network will enable “faster payments with lower fees than the primary bitcoin network,” according to Engadget.
Shortly after the tweet made its way to the public, Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour quote tweeted Paluzzi’s screenshot and added two emojis: a lightning symbol and another reading “soon.” This looks like an official confirmation that the feature is coming if we ever saw one.
While South Africans still wait patiently for the Tip Jar functionality, the app’s people have assured that it’s coming to more countries in the near future, along with bitcoin payments, apparently.