Lighting Wallets like BlueWallet, Blixt and many more allow us to send sats to Lighting Addresses like tips@allmysats.com. We can hence pay without scanning the QR code of an invoice.
- An existing Domain name and static ip address to express the lighting address(e.g. user@domain.com)
- A public Lightning Network node with sufficient inbound liquidity to receive payments to your lightning address.
- Golang installation
- A Webserver and reverse proxy like Nginx or Caddy. (example setup instructions here)
- Certbot to serve http over TLS. This is required since calls to the LNURLP are done via https. (example setup instructions here)
git clone https://github.com/hieblmi/go-host-lnaddr.git
cd go-host-lnaddr && go build main.go
- "RPCHost": This is your lnd's REST/RPC host:port e.g. "https://localhost:8080"
- "InvoiceMacaroon": Generate the hex encoded invoice macaroon :
lncli bakemacaroon invoices:read invoices:write --save_to=~/.lnd/tip-invoice.macaroon && xxd -ps -u -c 1000 ~/.lnd/tip-invoice.macaroon - "LightningAddress": Your preferred lightning address, mine is: tips@allmysats.com :-). This resolves to https://allmysats.com/.well-known/lnurlp/tips
- "MinSendable": 1000,
- "MaxSendable": 100000000,
- "CommentAllowed": If set to 0 the sender to your address can't add a comment otherwise the number stands for the permitted number of characters.
- "Tag": "payRequest",
- "Metadata": "[["text/plain","Welcome to satsonlightning.com"],["text/identifier","tips@allmysats.com"]]",
- "InvoiceCallback": "https://[YOUR_DOMAIN].com/invoice/" - this is the endpoint that will create the invoice
- "AddressServerPort": 9990 - the port your reverse proxy points to
./main --config config.json
- Support images as metadata
- Host multiple receipients under the same domain
- Config should provide paths to invoice.macaroon rather than the hexified macaroon itself
- Dump this list into github issues lol
This stuff is experimental. I appreciate your comments and if you have questions please feel free to reach out to hieblmi@protonmail.com. I just recently setup my own address this way so feel free to send me some sats if you think this has been helpful to you.