Questions tagged [bolt12-offers]
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Is Lightning Offers an improvement over Key Send?
The draft for BOLT#12 (Offers) introduces a new payment flow where the receiver of funds posts an Offer. The Payer can then request a unique invoice and pay the invoice. There are significant improvements in the flow including payment and payer…
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Can you know the final destination of a BOLT12 offer?
It is said that a BOLT12 offer does hide the final destination, and therefore protects privacy of receiver.
However, I just generated an offer, decoded it, and in the value node_id, it had my node's public key without the first byte prefix, which is…
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Can I create an invoice for a Lightning address I don't own?
I am building a web service where User A will signup and enter a Lightning address attached to the profile.
Then, User B would want to send some satoshi to the Lightning address of User A as a kind of a donation.
So, I want User A to click a button…
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What are the differences between the design of BOLT11 and BOLT12?
What are the differences between BOLT11 and BOLT12?
Should I be using BOLT11 as of today (November 2022) even I like some of the features of BOLT12?
Relevant resources are bolt12.org, this tweet thread from LN_Capital and this presentation from Elle…
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How to generate a lightning invoice of any type offline
Is it possible to generate a lightning network invoice without the encumbrance of a full lightning node (lightning node defined as: fully synced channel graph, knowledge of channel outpoints, and current channel state)?
How about bolt11, bolt12, amp…
Sanjay V
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