what's the difference between this (great) idea and messaging over lightning?
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Lightning was never meant as a messaging layer and it's terribly inefficient in doing so.
I see, thanks.
the Lightning messaging hassome usability though... I can message to my peers or any node operators that have keysend enabled.
Do you mean https://sphinx.chat ?
Bitcoin lightning network is one financial network, maybe too expensive to be used as normal communication.
I tried cipherchat.app but even without it you can send and receive messages with keysend...
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