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Introducing the Ghost Address! 👻⚡️

A Ghost Address is a Lightning Address for every lightning node, eliminating the reliance on custodial intermediaries to obtain a Lightning Address. Ghost Addresses enable easy lightning payments directly to self-custody!

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What's a Ghost Address? 👻

It's the fusion of Phantom Payments first described by nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 with the simplicity of Lightning Addresses from nostr:npub1rvg76s0gz535txd9ypg2dfqv0x7a80ar6e096j3v343xdxyrt4ksmkxrck . It's all about making lightning transactions as easy as email. 📧⚡️

Getting started is easy. Update to the latest Ghost-enabled Thunderhub.io , claim your Ghost Address, and step into the new era of self-custodied lightning zaps!

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Dive deeper into Ghost Addresses, how they work, and their impact on the Lightning Network in our latest blog post: https://amboss.tech/blog/ghost-addresses .

Lastly, Merry Christmas from the Amboss team! Now we can be sure that you'll be getting into the Christmas Spirit! 👻🎄

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

A step in the right direction

For privacy proponents, please note that this approach grants to amboss...

- payer ip (can be obscured by vpn/tor)

- payee node info

- payee ip (may be obscured with router vpn)

- amount sent

- time invoice requested by payer

- time invoice paid by payer

- amboss is custodial for the lightning address (just like Olympus for Zeuspay, Voltage, Geyser, etc)

But still kind of neat for always online nodes looking for a lightning address without need for setting up their own clearnet LNURL server.

I rank this as better than zeuspay addresses to your node, but needs a proprietary setup on the server due to the thunderhub requirement. If you are running your own node though this should be feasible.

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Amboss 2y ago

Amboss is actually outside of the flow of payment here, so this is definitely not custodial. There is trust in the invoice generation that it goes to the right place.