What is Bolt12?
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A Lightning address that doesn't change.
I’m confused. I see gitcitadel@geyser.fund… is that a bolt 12 lightning address?
I don’t understand bolt 12 at all, but i thought it was more of an invoice format?
No, that's a normal Lightning wallet. It Is intermediated by a server (like Alby or Geyser), so if the server goes down, so does your payment rail, even if your own node is up.
Bolt12 is the long string, in the profile text.
Some clients aren't showing my newest profile data, tho.
It's a lightning-native way of having a static payment address that allows a compatible node to reach out to your lightning node for an invoice, without the need for DNS, which is the current weakness of lightning addresses.