{"id":87869,"date":"2019-02-18T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:02:23","slug":"you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Send Bitcoin Tips Over Lightning on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When \u201cliking\u201d your favorite tweet isn\u2019t enough, you can now send small bitcoin transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Announced Saturday, the beta app Tippin has released <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tippin_me\/status\/1096826447526801410\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">a new Chrome Extension<\/a> available to Google browser users. Over Twitter, app users can send bitcoin payments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/information\/what-is-the-lightning-network\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">via the Lightning Network<\/a>, considered a way to make bitcoin transactions feasible at a large scale for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>With the extension enabled, a little lightning bolt symbol pops up inside every tweet next to the more familiar \u201clike\u201d and \u201cretweet\u201d buttons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter\">https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When \u201cliking\u201d your favorite tweet isn\u2019t enough, you can now send small bitcoin transactions. Announced Saturday, the beta app Tippin has released a new Chrome Extension available to Google browser users. Over Twitter, app users can send bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network, considered a way to make bitcoin transactions feasible at a large scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}