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Short, practical reads on taking bitcoin tips: preset amounts, posters, wallets, and what actually earns more at the counter.
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How to make a bitcoin tip jar
How to create a bitcoin tip jar in about ten minutes: a Lightning address, a few preset amounts and a QR code for the counter, the stream or your bio. Free, no account, and every tip goes straight to your wallet.
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Plain Lightning or bitcoin tip jar?
A Lightning address QR gets you paid. But your customer meets an empty amount box and no name, and you never see who it was. What a scanned address shows, what a bitcoin tip jar adds, and when a bare address is fine.
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Why your bitcoin tip jar needs preset amounts
Your customer scans the QR code and their wallet asks them to type a number in sats. Most of them put the phone away. Preset amounts fix that, and the research on suggested tips says they raise what people leave.