This is a common mistake. Many people put an LNBC Lightning invoice in the Lightning field on Nostr. This is incorrect.

It's okay. It's a bit confusing because different clients call this different things. Some will say LUD06, LUD16, Lightning address, Lightning or some other form. No matter what, you'll want to enter either one or two things here.

It's either going to be a Lightning address that looks like an email address or a Lightning invoice that starts with LNURL...

Both of these types of Lightning payment addresses or invoices can be reused. This is what you want. This is key.

If you're entering LNBC...this is most likely a one time payment invoice. This is not what you want.

Good luck!

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This chart is a few days old, but... the yellow line is probably spam, real users are closer to red or blue. The orange (LNURL-enabled) is ALOT lower. Considering everyone I know on here is a bitcoiner with it enabled, I assume that the Asian users (the portion that ISN'T spam) isn't YET orange pilled. We gotta get them into Bitcoin! We have to find a way to make a tutorial to show enabling Lightning and doing zaps in Mandarin (and maybe Cantonese too, I think that's what they speak in HK)

I'd guess we're somewhere around the average of the bottom three lines as many people test new clients with burner accounts and many burners add contacts and fill out bio information.

Spot on

It would be helpful if clients that let you set these values in your profile also performed validation and suggested actions the user can take.

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Thanks! Finally got it! Muun doesn't offer LNURLs

Correct! I'm glad this helped you even though this was meant to be a quote of another post. OOPS. Context was missing. 😆

Everyone should take the time to read this post

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This is what I did the very first time. This is helpful

What's a good android non custodial wallet?

Phoenix.

I really like Zeus with my own node though.

I’m feeling like a simp. I keep getting “payment failed - problem routing this payment” sending sats from my WoS to my Zeus / node

I stop using Zeus for that reason and started using Blue Wallet since you could import your LNTips and GetAlby into Blue Wallet

Thanks! Wasn’t sure if I set mine up properly but looks like I did. Someone zap me to make sure ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I'm glad this helped.

Thank you so much for posting this!! I made this mistake!

You're welcome.

Is it possible for clients to detect this honest mistake?

I don't know why it wouldn't be. All they would have to do is do field validation. If they're expecting LUD06 and if someone enters LNBC it should error or fail or not allow them to save.

I've even seen people enter Bitcoin addresses in there.

#[3]​ could you add this validation? Seems easy enough?

looks easy to implement the validation

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Thank you Derek, that was helpful!

I could not understand why it was not working.

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#[2]​ more deets here for ya

Oh awesome, the invoices function is quite cool