Elon Musk X like button feature

    by Gigliola: Elon Musk

    Elon Musk says holding the like button on X sends $1 to the author, processed through X Money. M&M News

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    X adding $1 tips via long press like. So Elon Musk put out a tweet saying that X is adding a long press on the like button to send $1 to the post's author through X money. The change turns a normal like into a direct $1 tip using their payment system. That post got 170,000 likes and 12 million views in just a couple of days. users are reacting with jokes, feature requests, and talk about creators earning from their posts. Let's see a little bit of that. Mason says, integrate XRP. Angry American said you should add a dislike button so the creator has to send us a dollar. Me liking my own post? I mean, it's going to come out of your own account, so I don't know where. Yeah, recirculating. But it does seem like X money is going to play a big deal in the future of finance in some capacity. Who knows? Even if it's short term. Yeah. I mean, it's funny because you know what this reminds me of is what like the Noster thing, right? It like the tipping mechanism from the Bitcoin space Yes Yeah Very similar dynamic And yeah it the x stuff i think is so tightly connected to crypto and blockchain because that where they were the culture was created too so it'd be interesting i'm also i'd be i'm curious to see how if the heat does start to pick up around elon the kind of things that he does to deal with that and one thing i was like he could make doge like huge again because then that's kind of a distraction when people go google like Elon Doge, the coin comes up, not the Department of Government Efficiency. That's true. You can bury that real quick. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, just imagine that, man. Like, the currency of X is just Dogecoin. It's the perfect place, man. He'll do something, Mimi, for sure. Yep. And that thing has so many retail holders that are in it. Like, if you really think about what projects have a shitload of holders, that's like one of the few, man, that just kind of have it as a write-off that if they come back to their wallet and there's a huge price appreciation, they'll brag and tell everybody. No doubt. No doubt. A startup claiming that they've turned mercury to gold via fusion. We talk about how the internet is messing with all of us all the time. So if you're into that kind of thing, definitely hit follow.