Twitter added ETH support for his "Tips Service" – Bits Media

The social network Twitter reported, that I added support for payments on the air to my service to encourage users, which previously supported only bitcoin.

Twitter launched a “tips” system in BTC in September last year, And now the service has begun to support ETH. According to the statement, Operation, who want to receive "tips" in ETH, It is necessary to enable the corresponding function in the settings of your account and add the address of the Ethereum wallet.

Interesting, that so far the system does not support the names of ENS. This system is similar to the DNS system on the Internet - it allows you to give letter names addresses in the Ethereum network.

“Tips” in Bitcoins on the Twitter platform pass through Lightning Network. Details about that, how exactly will there be transfers in ETH yet. More likely, The developers have introduced the support of one of the Ethereum sides to reduce commissions. At the same time, the commissions from the social network itself are not provided.

“Tips allow you to express their respect, support or reward the user - from novice content creators and journalists, to popular bloggers and participants Twitter Spaces ", - noted on the service page.

Recall, that in January, Twitter developers added NFT support for user avatars. At the same time, Twitter fell under criticism from the founder of Tesla Ilon Mask (Elon Musk), who stated, that the company could spend the resources of developers on more useful things.