Ghost will take a picture of an address

Updated September 2026

Ghost is built for memberships and newsletters, not for settlement rails. That is fine. A tip jar on a Ghost site is the same three-step job as a bio page: generate, upload, label.

Memberships are separate

Ghost Portal and Stripe memberships are how most publishers get paid. A crypto jar does not replace that. It sits next to it for readers who already hold an asset you can receive. If you only want recurring dues, you do not need this page.

A page beats every post

Create a static page named Tips. Generate the QR in the generator, upload it, and link Tips from the secondary navigation. Repeating the QR in every post is how an old address survives a wallet rotation. One URL you can edit is the whole hygiene habit.

Footer and portal

A footer snippet or a post injection can hold a small QR and a sentence. Keep the file in Ghost's image library so a theme switch does not 404 it. Do not put the jar inside a third-party embed that can change the destination later.

Label the network

Write the asset and the chain above the image. The rest is the same warning as Linktree: a valid address on the wrong chain is often unrecoverable. If you later add Substack as well, do not reuse an address you have already published on a dozen posts without reading what happens if the seed is gone.