Business intelligence company MicroStrategy's Bitcoin advocate executive chairman, Michael Saylor, has recently integrated Bitcoin's Layer-2 scaling solution, Lightning Network, into his corporate email address.
The move allows anyone to send Bitcoin (BTC) to Saylor by using his work email.
- The integration was first announced by the 58-year-old billionaire himself on Twitter.
- Saylor used The Lightning Address protocol to enable the integration.
- The protocol lets users substitute the internet identifiers, including email addresses, for a standard Lightning invoice or payment request without having to copy wallet addresses or use QR codes.
- The worldwide-known businessman, whose personal fortune is worth around $1.2B, said he has been receiving small BTC payments from followers since his Twitter post about the integration.
- The screenshot in the tweet has shown that donations were in the form of Satoshis, or 1/100,000,000 of a full Bitcoin.
- Saylor has yet to disclose whether they integrate the feature into all corporate email addresses in the company.
- Saylor and his company MicroStrategy are most famous for their Bitcoin-friendly approach.
- MicroStrategy most recently bought an additional 1,045 Bitcoin for around $29.3M, taking its Bitcoin reserve to 140,000.
- Statistics have shown that the firm briefly returned to profitability from its Bitcoin purchases due to the recent upward trend in the leading cryptocurrency's price that was freed from the steady decline throughout a prolonged crypto winter.
