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Hmm after re-reading this it is actually a somewhat genius idea. Use encrypted ephemeral events to ask a lightning node to pay an invoice. You could create a CLN plugin that connects to the damus relay, listening for encrypted ephemeral events from your key. This could be separate from your main key.

Then your nostr client only needs to send these encrypted requests to the relay. This also gets around firewall and NAT hole punching issues, since you are using the relay as a way to proxy the connection.

wow!
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finch ☦️ 2y ago

Isn't this basically what LNC does?

https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/lightning-node-connect

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jb55 2y ago

Yeah but instead of using their custom integrate that only works with LND, you this would work with any node, custodial and non-custodial. All damus would have to do is scan a QRcode to connect and it would just work.

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Kwinten 2y ago

LNC, commando-over-websocket and this proposal are all quite similar (encrypted rpc over a relay). It's just that both LNC are too complex if you just want to do basic stuff like paying an invoice.