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It's kind of also a bad match for Twitter to want to do it, but they've done it anyways.

And that says to me again that they're trying to signal something, whether to us or to, you know,

the mainstream government or just the normal people or I don't know who they're signaling to.

But it does feel like there's a motive that goes beyond just, hey, why don't we turn on Bitcoin

tipping?

The early days of Bitcoin startups was full of what we used to call bridging services.

Basically, these companies were shortcuts that made Bitcoin useful in places where larger companies,

like Amazon or Twitter, that you would want to spend something like Bitcoin, really

had no interest in making them useful.

It was just too early.

These services weren't perfect, but they were very popular and they spurred a lot of early

use, helping power the initial waves of adoption that we've seen grow with time.

Last week, Twitter announced that it was officially integrating Bitcoin Lightning payments for some users,

and Bitcoin addresses within your Twitter profile for everyone, although I was not actually able to find that in my profile.

This episode is part history about kind of the early days of tipping and the transactional ecosystem,

which I would really characterize as probably

the 2012 through 2015 period, and part discussion of the implications of Twitter's move.

So with all that said, my name is Adam B. Levine, and this is speaking of Bitcoin. As always,

I'm joined by the other host of the show, Stephanie Murphy. Hi. And Jonathan Mohan.

Hey, hey. Andreas is out this week.

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