Developers at Twitter are working on a new feature that will allow users to accept tips in Bitcoin via the Tip Jar function the social media platform unveiled earlier this year.

Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s product lead, first indicated the feature was in progress on Wednesday when he commented on a screenshot tweeted out by app developer Alessandro Paluzzi. The screenshot appeared to show Twitter using The Lightning Network, a technology that helps secure payment transfers, to allow Twitter users to use Bitcoin when sending tips.

⚡️🔜 https://t.co/EumSmM9caR

— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) September 1, 2021

Paluzzi wrote in her original tweet that Twitter, “is working on the ability to receive tips in #Bitcoin.” Later Wednesday, Beykpour quote-tweeted Paluzzi’s screenshot, adding a lightning bolt emoji next to another that said, “soon.”

On Thursday, Paluzzi posted another tweet that featured three new screengrabs. In the first, Twitter’s Tip Jar feature appeared to offer two new options: the ability for users to send tips by copying a Bitcoin address or one with Ethereum, another cryptocurrency.

The second screengrab showed an option for users to enter their own Bitcoin addresses. A message beneath at the bottom of the screengrab said, “People will send payments to the Bitcoin address you’ve entered above.” The third screengrab said the same about users’ Ethereum addresses.

Bitcoin Twitter tips
A product lead at Twitter indicated Wednesday that the social media company is working on a new feature that would allow users to send tips using Bitcoin. This photo, taken on July 19, 2021 in Istanbul, shows a physical banknote and coin imitations of Bitcoin. OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

Twitter officially unveiled its Tip Jar function in early May