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weev 6 days ago
I am uninterested in using lightning. LNurls are inherently centralized and automatically include a surveillance side channel, because they utilize the traditional domain name system. There’s CLINK which is only available via phone apps, it is the only Nostr-friendly way to not have a centralized LNurl and receive money, but that requires me to stay online with a surveillance device in the form of a phone, or run some ridiculous Android Studio setup. If you want to send me money please use the Monero address in my profile. LN just doesn’t seem like serious software to me, and the idea that I want to invite a custodian or a mobile device into my logistics to receive a few pennies here and there is, well, not appealing.

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What if we could use lnurl under Tor? Like instead of being name@clearnetdomain it could be name@onionaddress I've thought about this and I think it could be useful. I wanted to try to host my own lnurl but didn't want to buy a domain 🤔 And ofc running a node in some home server or something instead of phone.
Wtf you talking about Willis? Since CLINK is Nostr, it works literally everywhere. bxrd.app and shockwallet are both PWA's The reference server is a nodejs app that sets up in a minute and can run on any VPS or whatever box you have at home... but because it uses nostr it obviates the network setup. You can even use a noffer as a url param to a web site:
It's trivial to wrap a PWA into an app. I'm not sure why you'd want to install anything from zapstore. Great way to get malware on your device.