What’s the difference between Keysend (a la Blixt wallet) and something like LNURL or BOLT-12?
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What’s the difference between Keysend (a la Blixt wallet) and something like LNURL or BOLT-12?
#lightning #asknostr 
keysends are directly between lightning nodes that allow for accepting keysend payments. You're basically paying to a PUBKEY as desination
lnurl is for sending to an ACCOUNT on a lightning node. Here you've got a username@server identity and talking to a web server requesting it to provide you an invoice to pay based on parameters given.
Keysend: How to find a node pubkey to send invoiceless sats to
Lnurl: How to find an actual invoice to send sats to
A realworld analogy of paying a contractor for work: you can either request an invoice with all the details of the work and payment destination & pay that (lnurl), or you can skip the invoice, swing by their home (pubkey) and just drop off some cash (keysend)