THELOGICALINDIAN - Twitter has amorphous rolling out Tips a affection that allows users to accelerate bitcoin or banknote tips The rollout begins with iOS users with Android advancing anon The aggregation is additionally planning abutment for nonfungible badge NFT authentication
Twitter Rolls Out ‘Tips’ With Bitcoin
Twitter Inc. appear Thursday that it is rolling out the bitcoin angled affection starting with iOS users. The aggregation tweeted: “Tested the Tips feature, turns out bodies adulation money. Rolling out on iOS with Android advancing soon.” Twitter described:
Twitter Abutment tweeted answer how to use the new angled feature. “Looking to get a little abutment with Tips? Tips is now rolling out to anybody (18 ) on iOS. Add the Tips figure to your contour from the ‘Edit profile’ button,” the abutment annual wrote.
Esther Crawford, Twitter’s artefact manager, abundant that back an annual has angry on Tips, the Tips figure will arise abutting to the chase button on the contour page. “Tap the icon, and you’ll see a annual of acquittal casework or platforms that the annual has enabled, and you can baddest whichever you prefer,” she wrote, emphasizing:
“In accession to the casework currently enabled through Tips, bodies can now seamlessly tip with bitcoin appliance Strike — a payments appliance congenital on the Bitcoin Lightning Network that allows bodies to accelerate and accept bitcoin. Strike offers burning and chargeless payments globally,” Crawford added.
Strike is accessible in the U.S., excluding Hawaii and New York, as able-bodied as in El Salvador, area bitcoin is now acknowledged breakable alongside the U.S. dollar. Users in acceptable markets can assurance up for a Strike annual and add their Strike username to accept bitcoin tips over the Lightning Network. “You can use any Bitcoin Lightning wallet to accelerate tips to someone’s Strike account,” the artefact administrator clarified.
“When you accredit Tips on your profile, you can now additionally add your bitcoin address. People can archetype your abode and adhesive it into a bitcoin wallet of their best to accelerate you a acquittal directly,” she noted.
Besides Strike, added acquittal options and platforms currently accessible are Bandcamp, Cash App, Chipper, Gofundme, Patreon, Picpay, Razorpay, Wealthsimple Cash, and Paypal’s Venmo.
Twitter Exploring NFT Authentication Support
In addition, Twitter announced that it is additionally planning to abutment affidavit for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). “We’re aflame to anon analyze NFT authentication,” Crawford was quoted as saying. “It’s a way to abutment creators authoritative this art with a brand to authenticate authenticity. By acceptance bodies to anon affix their crypto wallets, they can clue and advertise their NFT buying on Twitter.”
She added: “We’re absorbed in basically aloof authoritative it visually bright that this is an accurate avatar and again accord you some absorbing advice and acumen about the ancestry of that NFT.” A Twitter agent said:
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