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2024-03-24 17:27:50

Huszonegy on Nostr: Any suggestions? ...

Any suggestions?
Exercise: you got to send someone money, but the payee didn't publish a bitcoin or LN address you trust. The onchain fees are high anyway for the price of a dinner.
Nostr solves this often, but let's say you just got some other social media contacts.

Solutions:
1. LNURLw
generate an LNURLwithdraw voucher and share the link or QRcode so the recepient can withdraw with most lightning wallets any time. This needs a LNURL server. Some ways to it:
- run BTCPayServer - create a Pull Payment, share the link or QRcode
- run LNbits - create a voucher with the LNURLw extension

Custodial solutions:
- https://lightsats.com - top up in the browser and create vouchers
- hope to have this streamlined in the Blink Wallet - the PoC could be extended here https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy-voucher
- there is of course the BTCPay / LNbits of someone else

2. Ecash
Use ecash (that will be Cashu for now) - send the token as text and when the recipient downloaded an Cashu wallet will be able to convert the token to a lightning payment or trade it within the mint for free.

- run LNbits with the Cashu extension, connect it to your eNuts or Minibits wallet
- run a mint directly with https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell

Custodial solutions:
- download eNuts https://www.enuts.cash/ or Minibits https://www.minibits.cash/ and use the default (or some other) mint
- looking forward to the fedimint instances in the wild

Does anyone has any other practical solution working now for async payments?
I'd like to pay bitcoiners more often, but sometimes not when I can just ask for a lightning invoice.
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