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Matt Corallo matt@bitcoin.ninja 1 year ago
This (finally) adds some amount of censorship resistance to LN Address, not to mention better security and (thanks to BOLT12) even allows users of custodial services to use their own domain for their address! The full protocol (lightning-specific) protocol is implemented at https://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?p=lightning-resolver;a=summary
Matt Corallo's avatar Matt Corallo
It’s time bitcoin had a way to specify human-readable names for payment instructions. LN Address has demonstrated the utility of such names, but it’s time to take it beyond just lightning and remove the dependence on HTTPS/CAs. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1551
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pleblee _@satstack.dev 1 year ago
My first thought as I'm reading this was that Cloudflare are Google are going to be so elated to have invested in capturing massive quantities of DNS users.
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ndr ndr@nostrcheck.me 1 year ago
I think it will not like me .. domain data is dinamically linked to well know people (kyc) .. many people on LN keep nodes behind tor addresses ... so this will work for identify user behind onion addresses? LN needs more anonymity , for example the node is disclosed on receipts; it would being need something help there, something like lnurl ; i think i'll never use it
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pleblee _@satstack.dev 1 year ago
I'm not quite sure I understand what this part means? On "current scemes": > (d) lacking open access, not allowing anyone to create a namespace mapping.
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Matt Corallo matt@bitcoin.ninja 1 year ago
There are proposals to add proprietary APIs for, eg exchanges to expose the ability to pay their users but not users of other wallets, at least in specific contexts.
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Matt matt@gitcitadel.com 1 year ago
All of those are made for large numbers of normies to use though. The base layer simply won't be. I don't see how the value will outweigh expanding the code and complexity. I'm not saying isn't there, I'm just not convinced.
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Matt matt@gitcitadel.com 1 year ago
All of those are made for large numbers of normies to use though. The base layer simply won't be. I don't see how the value will outweigh expanding the code and complexity. I'm not saying isn't there, I'm just not convinced.
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Jones 1 year ago
Waste of time, is the only thing that ln exp had teach us. But if you like wasting, keep losing.
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