There is no ulterior motive. I don't want to a domain name and IP address to be required in order to have a static payment identifier. That is a much higher bar for each end-user to reach to have an addressable self-sovereign LN node than simply running a LN node. For that reason it had encouraged many users to use custodial solutions or hosted arrangements that could intercept your payment making it not self-sovereign.
BOLT12 has never been closer than today with Eclair and LDK soon deploying in an interoperable way.
People are welcome to use LNURL with BOLT12 if they want. I'm just happy the former isn't required for the latter to be useful.
wtogami / Warren Togami
npub1pf…celvf
2023-03-04 20:36:58
in reply to nevent1q…ze9g
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npub1pfezegswrn8lpt0aerp2hvyhj4lsuzln9kcccs5p7qch2m2sawxsxcelvfPublished at
2023-03-04 20:36:58Event JSON
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