Quote from: Darker45 on September 02, 2021, 02:27:55 AM

A leaked image is released by developer, Alessandro Paluzzi, as to how the feature would probably look like.

This person does not appear to be associated with Twitter, beyond having a Twitter account. I am not sure why news outlets are citing this person. Most likely, this person was speculating as to what using bitcoin via twitter would look like.

I would also find it very unlikely that Twitter will encourage using bitcoin on its platform. Doing so would create a lot of risks, one of which being that it gives people direct financial incentives to hack Twitter accounts. After Twitter was hacked last year, they prevented (verified?) users from posting bitcoin addresses in their tweets.

Quote from: mk4 on September 03, 2021, 02:52:50 PM

Regardless if a certain company/platform is "trusted" or not, it's still a great move to decrease the usage of AML/KYC as much as possible. Twitter could be the best non-evil company in the world, but if their database gets breached, good luck erasing your personal information from the web.

Twitter is far from a "non-evil" company for many reasons. They allow terrorists who want to commit mass murder to publish propaganda to get more people to join them, while they censor people they disagree with.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on September 04, 2021, 09:06:19 AM

This seems like a privacy nightmare. Potentially millions of people are about to de-anonymize themselves by linking their very public names and social media accounts to their bitcoin wallets.

If people are displaying LN invoices as a means to receive payment, there should not be a major de-anonymization issue, as it is not trivial to get a lot of information about transaction history from a LN invoice, and is even more difficult if you are not actively monitoring a channel.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on September 04, 2021, 09:06:19 AM

Also, the amount of Twitter scams I can see coming is going to be ridiculous. Now fake Elon Musk accounts can just ask people to send donations directly to the bitcoin address listed on their profile.

It has the potential to be even worse than what you describe. Accounts can get hijacked, and new addresses/invoices can be changed in a profile without someone creating even a single fraudulent tweet.