Bitcoin hits $45K, TWTR stock price rises 3.8% after BTC tipping comes to Twitter

Bitcoin (BTC) hit four-day highs of $45,000 on Sept. 24 as the market digested news that Twitter had enabled BTC tipping.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Twitter stock surges 3.8% on Bitcoin news

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching $45,180 on Bitstamp.

The largest cryptocurrency had struggled to overcome resistance at $44,000, but the Twitter announcement provided some much-needed bullish momentum.

The social network rolled out the first phase of its Lightning Network tipping feature via payment gateway Strike for iOS users Thursday. Other interfaces would soon follow, Strike confirmed, with other tipping partners in the pipeline and set to be announced in the coming weeks.

“What the internet did for communication, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network is doing for money,” CEO Jack Mallers summarized in an accompanying blog post.

Twitter immediately felt the benefits, its stock up nearly 4% after yesterday's close. A video from Mallers showing him using the new tipping feature meanwhile attracted 1.6 million views in just 15 hours.

I just published Announcing the Strike API

Today, @Twitter enables free, instant, global payments for their users with their integration of the Strike API.

What the internet did for communication, #Bitcoin + the Lightning Network is doing for money.https://t.co/jHkY6knXkP pic.twitter.com/FXujknG7sM

— Jack Mallers (@jackmallers) September 23, 2021

Now, already bullish Bitcoin traders were even more optimistic. For Rekt Capital, a trend continuation involving a dip, consolidation and eventual exit to the upside was well on track.

“Daily Closed just like that and a dip has indeed taken place today,” he tweeted Friday, showing the predicted BTC/USD trajectory.

“This was all done in an effort to establish trend continuation from this point. Bitcoin is following the black path well thus far.”