https://acceptln.com/ is another option where you send sats to someone’s email address
I haven’t tried it but seems like a good option
#custodial
Exercise: you got to send someone money, but the payee didn't publish a bitcoin or LN address you trust. The onchain fees are high anyway for the price of a dinner.
Nostr solves this often, but let's say you just got some other social media contacts.
Solutions:
1. LNURLw
generate an LNURLwithdraw voucher and share the link or QRcode so the recepient can withdraw with most lightning wallets any time. This needs a LNURL server. Some ways to it:
- run BTCPayServer - create a Pull Payment, share the link or QRcode
- run LNbits - create a voucher with the LNURLw extension
Custodial solutions:
- https://lightsats.com - top up in the browser and create vouchers
- hope to have this streamlined in the Blink Wallet - the PoC could be extended here https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy-voucher
- there is of course the BTCPay / LNbits of someone else
2. Ecash
Use ecash (that will be Cashu for now) - send the token as text and when the recipient downloaded an Cashu wallet will be able to convert the token to a lightning payment or trade it within the mint for free.
- run LNbits with the Cashu extension, connect it to your eNuts or Minibits wallet
- run a mint directly with https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell
Custodial solutions:
- download eNuts https://www.enuts.cash/ or Minibits https://www.minibits.cash/ and use the default (or some other) mint
- looking forward to the fedimint instances in the wild
Does anyone has any other practical solution working now for async payments?
I'd like to pay bitcoiners more often, but sometimes not when I can just ask for a lightning invoice.
Discussion
Thanks, I remember someone showed this to me at Adopting Bitcoin ?2022. Nice service, adding it to my list.
Hope it is not always like this:
I just tried with an email and then it gave me a QR code, so seem to be working, maybe it glitched for you
But it’s a custodial service, so just play with few sats
Yes, working now, see it's using BTCPay Server.
Will need LNURLwithdraw implemented to be smoother. Could just scan a QRcode ratger than creating and copy-pasting a BOLT11 invoice. Also the parsing refuses invoices in capitals.