lnproxy

The biggest limitation of using lnproxy as a tool to receive payments to your own node privately, was the fact that the relay would learn your node id.
If you run LND, the issue is now solved: the latest version of lnproxy supports blinded paths. Try it today.
https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy-relay/commit/f5670e7dc23ff95e37453a39985b80983c2b9ca6

2024-11-26 20:28:04

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That's where the lnproxy bit is important. Try it yourself:
- make a blinded bolt11 invoices from your lnd, zeuz, or blixt node
- go to https://lnproxy.org and paste it in
- get a standard (unblinded) bolt11 invoice any wallet can pay
since the payment hash is the same on both invoices you can be certain that the lnproxy relay will have to forward the funds to you but it can't learn about your node because your invoice was blinded.

2024-06-27 14:50:06

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Still functional, just a blip! Thanks for alerting me.

2023-10-26 00:36:55

A detailed explanation for this bug:
#nevent1q…qzx9
naddr1qqxnzd3e8qersvpj8yervd3jqgswyk5typgsy2sgl97jvl2tn8wlc5q2p0lpfxjlvu0ydaewn63kajgrqsqqqa2872qwm0

2023-09-13 22:59:12

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Some more details: https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy-relay/commit/f8942bb2acef151972688fb0eb9f6f7ec6a4cf7c

2023-09-13 22:21:09

If you run an lnproxy relay please shut it down ASAP (two SIGINTs with Ctrl-C) and wait for an update.

2023-08-25 18:42:32

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#note1tl3…8fd7
This is a very big deal.

2023-08-06 13:49:40

Is there a program for testing / benchmarking relays? I've been working on a boltdb backend for github.com/fiatjaf/relayer and I want to see how it stacks up agains the sqls.

2023-06-27 21:35:41

More improvements to payment reliability for lnproxy relays: routing budget and cltv delta are now estimated intelligently using the routing graph ( https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy/commit/6bcc8dd495d8f6c4bb4a2690e7526c9ff55cba8d ).
Please test and report any issues.

2023-06-18 15:36:40

Increased the balance on the https://lnproxy.org/spec relay. If you've been trying to use lnproxy for large payments, it will be more reliable now.

2023-05-15 13:09:45

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This is an excellent idea. It also improves the privacy for the seller.
But running a local http server just to wrap an invoice is probably overkill. I reorged the code so that you can import lnproxy as a library and use it in whatever application you want. The code for a basic relay server implementation is a good example of what an application would look like: https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy/blob/refactor/relay/main.go

2023-04-27 16:14:23

lnproxy will be offline for a bit while lnd 16.1 starts up. Seems to be very slow when the back end node has a small mempool.

2023-04-26 23:17:24

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amazing!

2023-04-23 13:44:43

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Awesome!
Tagging @npub1qgw…7y7n

2023-03-21 14:05:40

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Yes, very good point!
lnproxy is potentially risky software. I've been running it for almost a year without losing any funds but it's still possible there are bugs (why I don't keep more than a few thousand on the node). Would rather have some more technical people give it a go first. Then I'll release binaries for different OSs and architectures. Images for node distributions only once it's been vetted to death.

2023-03-20 14:35:49

Running an lnproxy relay is a privacy upgrade for any node runner. Gives you additional plausible deniability; adds some meaningful distraction traffic; and, if you configure high proxy routing fees, even provides you some no-KYC sats.
Everyone should be doing it. To add your server to the list on https://lnproxy.org today, submit a PR to change: https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy-webui2/blob/30050e577a8707248f7d4edf234e3489d3641595/index.html#L70

2023-03-16 15:15:13

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based

2023-03-15 03:59:19

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Unironically a great standard library tho

2023-03-15 03:57:22

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Police can force you to face unlock. They can't force you to remember your password if you happened to forget it ;).
Don't use biometrics.

2023-03-12 12:37:59

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https://lnproxy.org 😅

2023-03-12 12:25:05

https://lnprox.org is finally back online with a *big* update:
- Change the description of your wrapped invoice
- Use any lnproxy relay
- Browser side js verifies proper payment hashes (download of a copy of the site so you know I can't do anything evil here)
- New spec driven API https://github.com/lnproxy/spec
- Nicer fonts
The node is new (had to run recovery from an SCB on the previous one and am happy to say it worked!) and has very few channels so payments will fail a lot. Open a channel!

2023-03-09 15:59:40

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Someone give this guy a dumb opinion badge

2023-02-15 06:25:41

:( lnproxy is down while I figure one heck an issue with lnd on openbsd 7.2. Never seen anything like it.
Please reach out if you're running or are willing to run a relay in the meantime. Would be good to point the webui somewhere while I fix this.
Apologies to everyone that was using my relay. It will be back as soon as possible, but it may take a few more days.

2023-02-10 19:24:47

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https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1609/30507.html

2023-02-08 05:44:46

In case you want to try running ord (https://github.com/casey/ord) using a remote node:
$ cat > ~/bin/ord-env << 'eof'
#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc -e
ssh -N -L 8332:127.0.0.1:8332 bitcoind@node &
port_forward_pid=$apid
sshfs -f bitcoind@node:/var/bitcoin $home/.bitcoin &
sshfs_pid=$apid
bash --rcfile <{cat $home/.bashrc; echo 'PS1="(bitcoin) $PS1"'}
kill $port_forward_pid
kill $sshfs_pid
eof
$ ord-env
(bitcoin) $ ord

2023-02-04 02:20:21

My lnd node just crashed. Weird thing is, there's nothing out of place in .lnd/logs/bitcoin/mainnet/lnd.log
Anyone ever experienced this?

2023-01-05 23:25:19

Whoa, added some new relays and the difference is night and day. I see some of my original follows still using the relays that were around pre-jack. Upgrade, it's worth it.

2022-11-16 04:45:51

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And thank you so much for paying attention to my < 10 follower twitter account so early on, really gave a nice push to keep working on the project.

2022-11-12 05:21:10

New damus.io/web design feels goood

2022-11-04 05:06:26

👀
https://lnproxy.org/assets/preview.gif

2022-09-23 17:23:59

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Yesterday Rene asked:
> How do you handle cltv delay?
> Do you just encode a large one into the invoice that you give out?
> Does this mean you have already found a payment flow and
> locked in htlcs or do you just guess generously?
https://nitter.net/renepickhardt/status/1572933510326804481#m

2022-09-23 17:21:42

The story of how I almost lost the funds on the lnproxy node 🙈.
And how Rene Pickhardt (https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/) saved the day.

2022-09-14 20:49:02

There are some big gaps in Lightning network privacy.
They will be patched.
In the meantime, I've been working on a simple Lightning privacy tool that could improve the situation for custodial wallet users and sovereign node users.