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Someone could put any lightning address they want on a profile and sacrifice getting the value of zaps in favor of impersonating someone else.

Satosha 1y ago

That is a good point .. but that is easy to solve if we want to .. whoever adds a lightning address , we can send a #Sat to them and ask them to send it back from same address ..

I bet .. if this is a rule ..we won't need many sats ..cuz no one would do it .. in addition the true owner of lightning address would know immediately.

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senf 1y ago

Lightning addresses don't store funds, they're just a gateway to generating an invoice. You wouldn't be able to say that the sat you got back came from the same address, because no lightning sats come from addresses.

Satosha 1y ago

I see .. I need to dig deeper into this .. but if I send you some sats from say my address shutosha@primal.net .. wouldn't you know who sent you money ? That seems strange though

Satosha 1y ago

Here .. see the lightning address of sender is right below the name ..

senf 1y ago

That's saying that the zap came from that nostr account, not that the zap came from that address. You can send zaps from sources other than how you receive them.