Cryptocurrency donations for bots, groups and channels
Show a button for sending quick donations to maintainers of bots, groups or channels using cryptocurrency. This could use either an established cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Etherium, EOS, etc. – or some…
INLINE BOT URL ~ INLINE BUTTON
ACTION ~ CALLBACK
URL Spec:
tg://<BOT_ID>?data=<ENCODED_DATA>
Where:
BOT_ID - self-descriptive, bot identifier, not the name, because bot may not know its name and there is extra step to get and set it.
ENCODED_DATA - same as callback data described in the Bot API, have to be encoded somehow, to preserve correctness
Why:
As you can see in the image, i've posted and, according to the major bot update 2.0:
"Since inline keyboards don‘t send additional messages to the chat, it made sense to give bots a way of manipulating their existing messages, so that they don’t have to send a new message each time they need to update something. This helps reduce clutter and build more fluid interfaces."
Additional control source in the message text may improve usability.