nostr:nprofile1qqsggcc8dz9qnmq399n7kp2yu79fazxy3ag8ztpea4y3lu4klgqe46qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhs8fa6r0 Thanks for your recent videos on Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. I've sent some sats your way. Also when you have the time, look into LND and BOLT 12. IIRC LND has been slow to adopt BOLT 12 due to prioritizing "stablecoin" support. I could be getting this all wrong and it might be more nuanced than the Core vs Knots discussion but I thought I'd bring the topic up.
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What's the low down there with that?
I don't want to give false information here and it's been a while since I looked into this but this is what I remember... There were arguments over whether LND should adopt BOLT 12.
Arguments against:
-LNURL & LN Addresses work just fine
-"LNURL is great for businesses" which is somewhat valid because people like using human readable addresses
-BOLT 12 has a lot of stuff in it; it could be bloated so let's be careful
-LND devs should just stick to implementing "taproot assets" (which could mean stablecoins and other scam garbage)
Arguments for:
-BOLT 12 implements something called a resuable "offer" that would make LNURL and lightning addresses obsolete in a sense. It would allow people to have the functionality of a lightning address without the human readability part. You would have a QR code or long string of characters.
- BOLT 12 seems to enhance privacy by doing more things over TOR (this I'm a little fuzzy on and it seemed to certainly be more technical at the time I came access BOLT 12)
-I really don't remember all the features so I'll link to the BOLT 12 website. https://bolt12.org/
There was a debate about BOLT 12 vs LNURL at a Bitcoin conference once...
https://youtu.be/Vk7Eyi9SHj0
That's kinda all I know so far...
Thanks for the info. Will check it out ✅
NP, here's also an issue on GitHub that talks about it a bit more and with nuance. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/5594