Twitter integrates Strike's wallet to let users receive tips in bitcoin, rolls out Tips globally on iOS, and will explore support for NFT authentication

Twitter's slate of new product announcements is not slowing down. The company today introduced a number of new initiatives aimed … Source: Twitter .

TechCrunch 2021-09-24 Sarah Perez

Context & Ripple Effects

Twitter began with a limited Tip Jar rollout for English-language users and a select group of recipients. The iOS-wide expansion turns that creator-payment feature into a broader platform capability while adding Strike as a bitcoin route.

Later coverage shows Twitter extending recipient options with ethereum addresses and additional payment services, while its NFT work progressed toward a blockchain-agnostic display tool. Together, those steps place tipping, wallets, and digital-asset identity on the same product path.

First-order effects

Twitter creators using iOS can receive Tips more broadly, and bitcoin holders gain a Strike-supported way to tip them.
Strike receives distribution inside Twitter's tipping flow, while Twitter begins testing whether NFT ownership can function as an account-authentication signal.

Second-order effects

Other payment providers and crypto-wallet services face pressure to match the reach and creator-facing placement that Strike gains through Twitter.
Creators able to accept bitcoin now have an incentive to expose wallet addresses alongside conventional payment options, a direction Twitter later broadened with ethereum and regional services.

Third-order effects

If Twitter continues joining payment rails with NFT-linked identity, the account profile can become a wallet-mediated layer for both monetization and proof of digital ownership.
The pattern shifts competition from a single tipping feature toward control of the payment and identity integrations through which creators transact with followers.

The trend: Social platforms are evolving creator monetization from standalone tipping tools into wallet-connected payment and digital-identity layers.

Discussion

Twitter Esther Crawford on x
Bringing Tips to everyone
help.twitter.com help.twitter.com on x
About Tips and Tipping — What is Tips? — Tips is a feature that lets you add links …
@jackmallers Jack Mallers on x
I just published Announcing the Strike API Today, @Twitter enables free, instant, global payments for their users with their integration of the Strike API. What the internet did for communication, #Bitcoin + the Lightning Network is doing for money. https://link.medium.com/... ht…
@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
Looking to get a little support with tips? Tips is now rolling out to everyone (18+) on iOS. Add the Tips icon to your profile from the “Edit profile” button. 💸 https://twitter.com/...
@esthercrawford Esther Crawford on x
Starting today, we're rolling out Tips to everyone on iOS globally and bringing it to people on Android in the coming weeks. 🧵 https://blog.twitter.com/...
@michael_saylor @michael_saylor on x
#Bitcoin on #Lightning⚡️ is the future of global payments. https://twitter.com/...
@panzer @panzer on x
Twitter is planning to ‘explore’ support for NFT authentication https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@alexbosworth Alex Bosworth on x
Amazing how quickly Twitter tipping integration has come together. If you think about companies who shall not be named but talk a big game about BTC and earn big time on it are all still slowly making progress on LN integrations, Twitter shows it just takes commitment to ship it.
@prestonpysh Preston Pysh on x
A MUST WATCH. https://twitter.com/...
@dankvr Jin on x
“NFT authentication will come in the form of a badge, shown on profile pictures, marking the owner's NFT as authentic,” a company spokesperson said. NFT pfps are the new blue checkmark https://twitter.com/...
@thecryptolark Lark Davis on x
Twitter is using #bitcoin Reddit is using #ethereum Facebook is still trying to launch its walled garden BS after 3 years, lol
@iamdcinvestor DCinvΞstor on x
the problem with tipping is there's not much reason to transact on this site i guess you can charge for access to articles? spaces? idk what. even then, USD seems a better currency than BTC but trading NFTs and other digital assets? well, that'd be a lot more interesting tbh
@brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong on x
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/ ... Huge if true. I imagine we will see crypto integrated into most social media apps in the next 5 years. Reddit has already started in this direction. We will also see brand new decentralized social media apps.
@knutsvanholm Knut Svanholm on x
I'm jacked! https://twitter.com/...
@surferjimw @surferjimw on x
Imagine how everyone but NY'ers can use @ln_strike like normal adults, but our overlords here in the “Empire State” are protecting us from all this dangerous innovation- because they know what we need more than we do. I feel so safe now.☹️ https://twitter.com/...
@apompliano Pomp on x
Never bet against @jackmallers and the team at Strike 🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/...
@kellycnbc Kelly Evans on x
👀 “This payment network is no Paypal; it solves one of Twitter's largest problems and addresses one of the most outdated problems for the World Wide Web as a whole.” https://jimmymow.medium.com/ ...
@mdudas Mike Daodas on x
lol, “ethereum” is still the forbidden word at @jack's companies https://techcrunch.com/...
@jeffbooth Jeff Booth on x
Awesome @Jack and @jackmallers!! Technology lowers costs and improves lives as a result. Rising prices are an artifact of a system that of the past. The world is changing fast. #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
@carlosdomingo Carlos Domingo on x
Twitter has done more new features and iterations in the last 12 months than in the last 12 years. https://techcrunch.com/...
@cburniske Chris Burniske on x
.@twitter tipping, including w/ $BTC, live on iOS soon. @jmonegro has pointed out the ruling in Epic's favor that @apple cannot require in-app txns to go through the App Store is an important gateway opening for #crypto. Gateway opening quickly... https://www.coindesk.com/...
@elliotturn Elliot Turner on x
TWTR is getting serious here! A lot of focus on the Bitcoin & NFT stuff, but wow am I happy to see the creator fund (though wish it were combined w/ Bitcoin in my Twittercoin idea...) https://twitter.com/...!!! https://techcrunch.com/...
@seedphrase Danny on x
This is incredibly bullish news for NFTs/web3. All of those million dollar plus sales look genius now. I'm ready for my verification tick 😎 https://twitter.com/...
@jowyang Jeremiah Owyang on x
Twitter continues to innovate. Continual new products and programs. Ht @susanbeebe https://techcrunch.com/...
@manishm Manish Maheshwari on x
Tipping feature on Twitter - now called ✨Tips✨ - is rolling out in all markets with more payment options to choose from - even #Crypto https://blog.twitter.com/...
@pablostanley Pablo Stanley on x
Seems like Twitter plans to have some kind of NFT authentication 😮 ... perhaps they'll allow GIF avatars too? one can hope! https://www.theverge.com/...
@blowdart Barry Dorrans on x
LOL no way this will go wrong. None whatsoever. https://www.theverge.com/...
@martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x
More important than Bitcoin tips, Twitter is rolling out tip jars to all users, starting today on iOS and in the coming weeks on Android. https://twitter.com/...
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
If people are spending thousands of dollars of profile pictures (NFTs) to flex on Twitter, it seems obvious that Twitter should officially support showing that you're the owner of that CryptoPunk or Bored Ape in your pfp. I believe NFTs are here to stay https://techcrunch.com/...

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