Business Post Contributor
By Ashemiriogwa Emmanuel
Microblogging and social networking giant, Twitter, has announced Mrs Tess Rinearson, a seasoned Crypto engineer, to lead its new cryptocurrency team.
The company has carved out a dedicated team to specifically look into decentralised applications, cryptocurrencies and blockchain solutions.
Mrs Rinearson, before joining Twitter, was a full-stack engineer at Medium, where she worked on the company’s first service written in Go called the social graph service. She has built blockchain software and worked on storage and protocol problems.
Announcing the new role in her tweet on Wednesday, November 10, she wrote, “I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Twitter, lead a new team focused on crypto, blockchains, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.”
In addition, she disclosed that the team would be exploring how ideas from crypto communities can further expand boundaries of what’s possible with identity, community, ownership and more.
“As I build out the team, we’ll be working to figure out what crypto can do for Twitter, as well as what Twitter can do for crypto. Twitter truly “gets” crypto (hello bitcoin tipping & NFTs!), but there’s so much more to explore here,” she wrote.
The announcement marks significant progress to the bird app journey towards achieving an enhanced Bitcoin integration which was first revealed about two months ago.
Sometime in September, Business Post had reported the micro-blogging giant announced that it would roll out the ‘Tips feature’ that would allow users to get paid in Bitcoin on the social network.
It happened after the introduction of Tip Jar, a recently added feature on the bird app that makes it easy for users to send money to their favourite creators on the micro-blogging service using third-party apps, including Cash App, Patreon, Venmo, and others, to their Twitter bios and individual Tweets to receive funds.
