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Really really really disappointed to see noncustodial services feel pressure to adopt lnurl/lnaddress receive.

It allows the wallet vendor to steal funds, which is obviously pseudo-custodial, and, worse, means we can’t get privacy from blinded paths, you’re still seeing everything.

This is what happens when we don’t carefully consider the technology we’re making a defacto standard. Don’t break bitcoin, please.
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finch ☦️ 2y ago

Would love to see BOLT12 + blinded paths be the standard.

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

Sure, but even before that it’s not hard to imagine simpler protocols that still work in a non custodial manner, or even trivial adaptations to lnaddress to do so.

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finch ☦️ 2y ago

Curious what you’re thinking that would be a simple solution to remove the existing risks of lnaddresses since I’ve yet to see one put forth.

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

In the use-case of nostr you could, for example include the public key required to sign the invoice to prevent interception.

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Kieran 2y ago

https://github.com/lnurl/luds/pull/203

No need for webserver anymore if you have relays in the middle

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Kasso 2y ago

Exactly! But Lightning Labs isn't implementing BOLT12 in LND, because their befriended companies are earning money with these kind of functions on the application layer.