How Lightning Address Works
September 3, 2022
More experienced users know, that nowadays you can send satoshis directly to Lightning Address in user@domain format. But how exactly does this work?
In this short article I would like to explain it to those who do not know it. At the same time, I will describe the basics of Lightning invoices and LNURL-pay protocol.
This article by @heisenberg was published on stacker.news website.
Lightning invoices basics #
Lightning Invoices are nowadays the standard for sending and receiving funds on the Lightning Network. If you want to receive some satoshis, you have to generate an invoice on your node/wallet. An invoice is nothing more than a text string (which starts with lnbc…) and contains, among other things, the recipient ID and the amount. There is actually more information but we won’t go into that now. The invoice is most often shared using a QR code, which is nothing more than an image representation of the string described earlier.
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