Proper Nostr Zap support ⚡️ for phoenixd-LNURL coming in two weeks™️ (probably sooner)
Also optional NIP-5 server because it was easy
Easily self host your Lightning address and Nostr NIP-5 ID 🤙
#zapathon #phoenix #lightning
Discussion
direct NIP-57 support will great but until them can simple forward above threshold sats to it and take out when needed
Yeah, for now you can still receive ‘zap’ payments but as phoenixd-lnurl doesn’t know how to handle them, the zapper doesn’t get a receipt and it doesn’t show in any Nostr clients
What do I need to run? A Lightning node + phoenixd + phoenixd-LNURL? Or juste the later one + use Phoenix on a mobile?
Phoenixd is a Lightning node (https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/) that works a lot like thir app, uses ACINQ as the LSP so you never have to worry about liquidity or finding people to open channels with, they handle all of that for you, for a fee.
So, you just need to run phoenixd to have self-hosted lightning, and phoenixd-lnurl alongside it to have self-hosted LNURL and Zaps.
Currently does kinda require that you've already got a server running somewhere, more work needed to get this to work on node-in-a-box solutions like Umbrel, Start9 etc.
Ok thanks for the explanation, not quite sure it's what I was expecting.
I already run an Umbrel with Lnbits and lnurlp with Lightning address. And yes it's quite complicate to setup and in my case it's quite unrelable, not sure why exactly.
Still hoping for an easier and more reliable solution that is still self-hosted and non-custodial.
Yeah, the fundamental difficulty is LNURL needs you to control a clearnet domain somewhere so it's easy for people to fnd you and resolve a human redable ID like `satoshi@lightning.gmx.com` -> long LNURL pay thingy `LNURLPBLAHBLAHBLAH.....` -> An actual Invoice from the Lightning Network.
That need to start with a clearnet domain makes it difficult to get working at all from an Umbrel-at-home, and difficult to make it work reliably. I assume it would work over Tor, but 99% of people then probably can't pay you as running Tor on a phone is not normal 😅 and also a tad difficult
Made it all run in portainer on umbrel... sats@zap.alex71btc.com/lnurl
Struggling to test this right now because of the testnet shenanigans, my nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 testnet LND is *not* happy haha. Thanks nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp 😆
Take a look at the limitations I built into ligess for NWC zaps. If you have a better idea to limit risk, I would love to hear.
Thanks, will do