MicroStrategy’s Saylor fuses work email address with Bitcoin Lightning
Fans of the Bitcoin bull have been transferring him 21 Satoshis as a way to test out the feature. The Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network has integrated into the corporate email address of Michael Saylor, a Bitcoin bull and co-founder of Business intelligence software firm MicroStrategy. In an April 17 tweet, the former chief executive of the firm shared a screenshot with his 3 million Twitter followers of a few transactions sent to “saylor@microstrategy.com” from others in the form of Satoshis or “Sats” — the smallest denomination of Bitcoin. So @MicroStrategy converted my corporate email address into a #Lightning️ address and people keep sending me 21 sats... pic.twitter.com/FHde6RtA6N — Michael Saylor️ (@saylor) April 17, 2023 MicroStrategy’s integration is enabled by the Lightning Address protocol, which allows users to link an “Internet Identifier” like an email address rather than having to copy wallet addresses or use QR codes. It is unclear if MicroStrategy integrated the...