THELOGICALINDIAN - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has installed and about accepted a consumergrade apparatus for accepting tips via Bitcoin and the Lightning Network LN
Dorsey Embraces Bitcoin
In tweets February 20, Dorsey, who has appear out awful bullish on both Bitcoin and added afresh LN, connected his advancement of the technology by advancement Tippin.me.
Tippin after accomplished the top 225,000 best visited sites in the US and top 500,000 worldwide.
The tool, which launched in January, aboriginal acquired acclaim as the belvedere acclimated for the Lightning Torch transaction broadcast which aboriginal affective Dorsey’s absorption beforehand this month.
“I absorbed this up and already got angled some satoshis,” he wrote, assuming his antithesis as a baronial 49 cents account of satoshis.
The move saw actual acclaim from LN supporters. The Twitter user accepted as hodlonaut, who began Lightning Torch, again calls for Dorsey to add LN functionality to Twitter direct.
In the meantime, the Lightning arrangement tip formed instantly back we beatific him 500 sats (about 2 cents):
Lightning Tips Debut On Twitter
The abstraction had appear about afterward Dorsey’s accord in the relay, the CEO hinting in a after podcast with Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark that the technology would in actuality be advancing to his added adventure Square in the future.
“We would adulation to accomplish [Bitcoin] as fast and able and transactional as possible, and that includes attractive at our agent abject and register,” he said at the time.
As Bitcoinist reported, the latest spotlight for Lightning comes as added and added easy-to-use articles and casework activate to appear for lay consumers.
In accession to acclimation pizza in the US via Lightning Pizza, Tippin.me is now accessible for Twitter users as a new Google Chrome and Firefox browser extension.
“Not alone the Twitter acquaintance absolutely changes but it additionally accessible bottomless approaching scenarios,” developers promised.
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