Lightning Merchants: Cash App seems to have quietly dropped support for Lightning payments initiated from a third party website. If your web app uses a "Pay in Wallet" button, that button will send your customer to a confusing error page in Cash App, if your customer attempts to pay. Easy solution: either provide this link for your customer, or copy the content of this page onto your own website:

Rizful

How To Pay A Lightning Invoice With Cash App

Step-by-step screenshots showing how to pay a Bitcoin Lightning invoice with Cash App: paste or scan the invoice, check the amount and send.

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OpenReceive discussion on Stacker News: https://stacker.news/items/1597457

Lightning PSA: Proprietary APIs like those offered by Breez and Lightspark have severe privacy dangers, and lock your users into services provided by only one company. These companies are marketing their APIs as "self-custodial": We've all learned from recent issues with Liquid about how dangerously misleading this can be. The LSP ("Lightning Service Provider") standards are open, private, and allow you to switch providers at any time. Learn more about the LSP standards here: LSP1:

Megalith Lightning Docs

LSPS1: Get A Lightning Channel Opened To Your Node | Megalith Lightning Docs

Use LSPS1 to request an inbound Lightning channel for a mobile client or node through Megalith's API-compatible LSP flow.

LSP2:

Megalith Lightning Docs

LSPS2: Get "Just-In-Time" Lightning Channels | Megalith Lightning Docs

Use LSPS2 to request just-in-time Lightning channels so mobile clients can receive payments without managing inbound liquidity ahead of time.

If you run or control 45.61.137.64, or are using that as a proxy, and sending a lot of traffic to one of our services, please reach out for a friend chat...

The OpenReceive BTCPayServer plugin is coming soon! Enables seamless Lightning payments in BTCPayServer!

if anyone is looking to implement Lightning, USDT, USDC payments on their website, looking to help onboard a few users to this, which is our new project:

OpenReceive

Self-hosted Bitcoin and stablecoin payments

Accept Bitcoin and stablecoins in your own server-side app. Free, MIT-licensed and self-hosted — no account, no API key.

building Lightning services: "Six months of learning about Lightning and then an unlimited numbers of years of increasingly complicated and paranoid DevOps"

We're building something big and robust for merchants that relies on receive-only NWC codes. Our research suggests that currently only Alby and Rizful support making receive-only NWC codes. Can anyone suggest other NWC-capable wallets which easily allow a user to generate a receive-only code?

@k00b trying to contact you with something security related, seems like you might not be on Telegram anymore and it isn't obvious to me how to contact you otherwise, you might want to have some kind of contact form or method on stacker.news especially for security-related stuff

ColdCard apocalypse was a black swan event. Even more unlikely than a big exchange getting hacked. Who would have ever thought that a paranoia-themed operation like CoinKite would have basic RNG flaws?

Does anyone know who the creator or runner of

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Lightning Swap:

Megalith Lightning Docs

Swap USDT, USDC, Solana and Ethereum to Bitcoin Lightning | Megalith Lightning Docs

How merchants can let customers pay with USDT, USDC, SOL, or ETH and still settle in sats on the Lightning Network using Lightning Swap.

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Lightning Swap

Pay Lightning invoices with USDC, USDT & more — Lightning Swap

Instantly pay a Lightning invoice with USDC, USDT, Solana, or Ethereum. Fixed-rate coin to Lightning swaps — fees between 1.1% and 5% depending o...

-- compatible with the FixedFloat API.

@primal Not sure if you are intending the LightSpark addresses to function as normal Lightning addresses or not, but in case you do...

GitHub

standards-compliant LNURL senders can't pay LightSpark "primal.net" addresses · Issue #198 · PrimalHQ/primal-web-app

LNURL-pay invoice from primal.net has description_hash that does not match LUD-06 metadata Summary Some Primal Lightning Address / LNURL-pay paymen...