An Argentine Entrepreneur Tries to Take His Tipping App Global With the Lightning Network

An Argentine Entrepreneur Tries to Take His Tipping App Global With the Lightning Network
Damian Catanzaro, a 26-year-old Argentine programmer, created a sensation among Argentinian content creators and NGOs with Cafecito, a tipping platform he started in Feb. 2020 that’s reached 300,000 users.But now he wants to go global after recently integrating the Lightning Network, a Layer 2 payment product built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.Catanzaro developed Cafecito – the name is a Spanish word that refers to a small cup of coffee – when he was looking for ways to monetize the educational programming content he was publishing in his social networks, especially Twitter.“I found that there were a lot of crowdfunding…