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lnurl-rfc
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What's LNURL and BOLT12?
LNURL is a stack of simple protocols for coordinating information needed to make payments over the Lightning Network using HTTP. The full list of LNURL protocol pieces can be found here, but I'm just going to go into a few core uses that overlap with BOLT12. The three core features of the LNURL protocol are defined as:
bolts
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Smart Contract Security Field Guide
True although I'm not talking about Ethereum smart contracts, I'm talking about Bitcoin ones which are very limited and not Turing complete. The lightning smart contract is like 20 lines and has been live since 2018, I feel the probability of the contract getting hacked is very low(famous last words!) https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/03-transactio...
- Is there any Bitcoin layer (eg. Bitcoin = L1, Lightning = L2, etc.) on which the satoshi (SAT) is divisible?
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Does Lightning Network have its own hard forks?
LN is a protocol for sending signed txns around, keeping track of balances locally, and broadcasting channel open/close/justice txns. All the rules are outlined in the foundational BOLTs https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/00-introduction.md
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What's LNURL and BOLT12?
BOLT12 offers an attempt to achieve some of the core functionality that LNURL provides without requiring the use of a web server. An offer encodes the data necessary to reach a node to request an invoice to make a payment, either a node_id, or a blinded path (the last few hops in an onion route, pre-computed and encrypted) to that node using onion messages. It also can encode a minimum amount for a payment, the currency being paid in, an expiry time and minimum/maximum quantity numbers (for purchasing multiple items).
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Safe Lightning Transactions Without The Need for Watch Towers or Continuous Network Connectivity
In practice, I do not know if this is possible. I am quite unfamiliar with Bitcoin OpCode scripting and if the revocation tree of the channel state (which is just an unpublished Bitcoin contract) is expressive enough to allow inputting an arbitrary address to recieve the attacker's funds. I am attempting to use this documentation as a clue to whether or not, and how this might be possible: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/03-transactions.md.
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Chainalysis: The $8.6B Startup That Helps Governments Trace Crypto
No they can't, that's the whole point of onion routing. The next hop doesn't know if the packet started with you or if you're just another node in the payment path.
Reference: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/04-onion-rout...
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Negative fees
There is a discussion to add to the lightning BOLT specification for 'inbound fees' which essentially enables a 'rebate' for using a particular channel to route through your node.
- Lightening Network Links and Resources
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An important message to this community: We can do better!
Basis Of Lightning Technology BOLT specificiations
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Is sending BTC over the lightning network private and anonymous?
tbh i have a text file with definitions of many of these because I constantly confuse them, most of which were pulled from using search at https://github.com/lightning/bolts and similar
What are some alternatives?
lightning-address - Lightning Address - like an email address, but for your Bitcoin
BOSL2 - The Belfry OpenScad Library, v2.0. An OpenSCAD library of shapes, masks, and manipulators to make working with OpenSCAD easier. BETA
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
wiki.plebnet.org
satdress - Federated Lightning addresses server.
loop - Lightning Loop: A Non-Custodial Off/On Chain Bridge
did-core - W3C Decentralized Identifier Specification v1.0
bitcoinbook - Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Edition - Programming the Open Blockchain
lnurl-node - Flexible lnurl server implementation with API and CLI implemented in nodejs.
bitcoin-on-twitch - Bitcoin on Twitch: Accept Bitcoin donations on Twitch, and integrate them into your alerts!
phoenix - Phoenix is a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet using Lightning to send/receive payments.
lndmanage - Channel management tool for lightning network daemon (LND) operators.