Querying DNS in a fully self-validating manner is pretty trivial, so much so you can shove it in a small webpage :)
Shove Bitcoin payment instructions in TXT records and now you can get easy internet-less self-validated proofs of payment instructions! A hardware wallet can even check it and display a nice human-readable name for payments, talk about awesome UX.
https://http-dns-prover.as397444.net
Test looking up matt.user._bitcoin-payment.mattcorallo.com. TXT :)
matt / Matt Corallo
npub185…swrdp
2024-02-08 21:08:35
Author Public Key
npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdpPublished at
2024-02-08 21:08:35Event JSON
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"pubkey": "3d2e51508699f98f0f2bdbe7a45b673c687fe6420f466dc296d90b908d51d594",
"created_at": 1707426515,
"kind": 1,
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"content": "Querying DNS in a fully self-validating manner is pretty trivial, so much so you can shove it in a small webpage :)\n\nShove Bitcoin payment instructions in TXT records and now you can get easy internet-less self-validated proofs of payment instructions! A hardware wallet can even check it and display a nice human-readable name for payments, talk about awesome UX.\n\nhttps://http-dns-prover.as397444.net\n\nTest looking up matt.user._bitcoin-payment.mattcorallo.com. TXT :)",
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}