Lightning Address feature now on Bookmark.org 🚀
We have launched Lightning addresses on Bookmark. This means you can receive Sats with your Bookmark username by simply using ‘username@bookmark.org‘ in any supported Lightning Wallet.
Human readable & beautiful 🚨
While a normal lightning invoice or LNURLs can be overwhelming for beginners, turning it into a Lightning address makes it a beautiful experience.
We are all familiar with email addresses. The concept is commonly known and it makes so much sense to apply it to Lightning. Do you remember seeing the ‘@’ for the first time and not knowing what it means? Well, nowadays we all take email for granted.
With lightning address, a powerful feature has been born and we are happy to announce that Bookmark provides all its users with a Lightning Address directly after registration.
Want to try it out for yourself? Head over to bookmark.org and register your account. Be fast so you get your dream username!
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How was it built? 🛠
We found Lightning Address to be a simple protocol to enable any internet service to issue internet identifiers, map those identifiers to payment requests, and issue Lightning invoices interactively with a payer wallet. This was implemented with two JSON API endpoints, the first to deliver a callback payload and other transaction parameters to the wallet, the second to return a payment request / invoice.
Lightning Address documentation
https://github.com/andrerfneves/lightning-address/blob/master/README.md
LUD-06 payRequest base spec
https://github.com/lnurl/luds/blob/luds/06.md
Blockers & Issues ✋
It took some experimenting to discover the correct format for the unhashed_description parameter, which needs to contain specific values, JSON-encoded, stringified, and base-16 encoded. Community documentation could be improved around when and how to use unhashed_description or description_hash when generating a BOLT-11 invoice.
Try it out 🔗
Want to try it out for yourself? Head over to bookmark.org and register your account. Be fast so you get your dream username!