CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Strike, the world’s leading digital wallet built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, today announced the launch of its Strike API platform to serve trading markets and businesses. Twitter will use Strike’s API to allow Twitter users to seamlessly pay Bitcoin from anywhere in the world with any Bitcoin Lightning wallet and give US and El Salvador users the ability to receive account tips their Strike.
Twitter Staff Product Manager Esther Crawford announced the global launch of Tips and the ability to tip with Bitcoin using Strike on a Twitter blog post today. “We want everyone on Twitter to have access to ways to get paid,” Crawford said. With Twitter’s Strike integration, a Twitter user (in El Salvador or the US) can now receive a payment instantly and for free from anyone in the world.
Strike is available in El Salvador and the US (except Hawaii and New York). People in eligible markets can sign up for a Strike account and add their Strike username in order to receive instant global tips on the Bitcoin Lightning Network on Twitter. Strike can be downloaded from the App Store, Play Store or Chrome Web Store. All Twitter iOS users will be able to send tips starting today. The Strike Tips integration that allows users to receive tips will begin rolling out to iOS today and will expand to all users including Android over the coming weeks.
With the announcement on Twitter, Strike is now expanding public access to the Strike API through an early access program for markets and traders. Marketplaces can use Strike’s API to enable instant global payments between buyers and sellers or fans and creators. Merchants can use Strike’s API to accept payments from customers instantly – a cheaper, global and faster alternative to traditional bank or card networks. Any business interested in integrating the Strike API can learn more and apply for early access at www.strike.me/api.
“Today, we take a giant step forward in increasing global interoperability with the world’s first open monetary network, Bitcoin,” said Strike founder and CEO Jack Mallers in announcing the launch of the Strike API. He continued, “Today, with the Strike API one of the world’s largest Internet companies becomes interoperable with the world’s largest global monetary network making payments anywhere in the world cheaper, faster and unlocking a completely new payment use cases not seen before. ”
About the strike
Strike allows users to send and receive payments anywhere, instantly, for free. Strike is built on top of the Bitcoin network – the largest global, interoperable and open payment standard. Strike believes that open payment networks enable universal participation in the financial system, ushering in a new digital economy with truly borderless money transfers. Strike leverages Bitcoin’s open payment network to provide users with the first global peer-to-peer payment application and a new native bitcoin financial experience. Learn more at www.strike.me.
