Blockstream’s last announcement was its second Lightning Charge app, a WordPress module labeled ‘Lightning Publisher‘, that allowed content creators using the popular CMS to publish pay-per-view articles.

Now they revealed the third app in their series, this one is labeled ‘Nanotip‘ and is similar in a way, but still different. While the first app is aimed for the pay-per-view articles, this one is more like a standard Bitcoin tipping jar, but now running with lightning’s micropayment capabilities. There were a few problems regarding Bitcoin tip jars, keeping the same address weakens your privacy and secondly Bitcoin’s rising transaction fees resulting from its rising price were not suited for microtransactions.

Now Nanotip solves these issues, firstly the LN payment requests offer better privacy and secondly the main feature of the new layer 2 network is the near zero fee structure. The application works through creating a simple web server for the content manager that writes payment requests.

For the full announcement: Blockstream.com

Link to the app: Github.com

Preview of the App:

(Image taken from the Blockstream announcement)