Twitter’s Tipping Feature to Soon Allow Bitcoin Lightning Payments on Android Devices

Twitter has been working in direction of integrating Bitcoin assist for its ‘Tip Jar’ characteristic and rolled out the mixing to iOS customers in direction of the top of September and is lastly rolling out its Bitcoin Lightning tipping characteristic for Android units. The social media big has a tie-up with digital foreign money cost options big, Strike, to care for technical assist for Twitter’s new Bitcoin tipping service. The rollout is but to assemble tempo however ought to present up for Android customers within the US quickly.

The Tip Jar characteristic till now supported conventional cost platforms like Venmo, Money App and PayPal. With Bitcoin funds into the image, Twitter has roped in Strike — a cost platform constructed on the Bitcoin Lightning Community that enables customers to ship or obtain the favored cryptocurrency immediately and for a really low charge. Along with including a Lightning pockets, customers can even select so as to add a Bitcoin handle to obtain suggestions.

The event was noticed by notable reverse-engineering knowledgeable and researcher Jane Manchun Wong who famous that Twitter has already launched the Bitcoin Lightning tipping characteristic on the beta model of the app obtainable for Android units. She additionally posted screenshots of what she noticed.

Since Android customers declare 73 p.c of the worldwide cellular OS market as per Statista, the Bitcoin funds integration on Android may see crypto funds choose up on the platform. The transfer may additionally assist scale utilization for the Bitcoin Lightning Community which is a second layer added to Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain that enables transactions between events not on the blockchain community.

Speaking of Twitter ramping up efforts on the crypto-front, the Jack Dorsey-led microblogging platform can also be engaged on assist for non-fungible token (NFT) authentication. The characteristic will make it potential for customers to indicate off their NFT assortment on the social media platform.