I don't know if you know about Lnbits, you can have a lnurl address in 2 minutes. And installing it on Star9 or Umbrel is literally one click away.

And why it has to be clearnet? Supporting tor is a 5 minute job for either part.

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lnbits is awesome. Braiins is asking for a lightning address for payouts which has a dependency on public DNS so I think your lnbits instance would need to be publicly accessible on clearnet. Also you have to run a lightning node AND lnbits. With Bolt 12 you only need the node and Tor only is fine.

The only issue with Bolt 12 is that LND is dragging their feet on supporting it which is an LND problem.

So, you choose something that only CLN supports, and in experimental mode only, instead of something that is universally available right now for everybody including CLN, LND, eclair and fedimints for what reason?

Anyway there is not only lnurl, you have also amp invoices and keysend.

I would absolutely choose something that is part of the official lightning specification over an add on solution which requires a web server. LND ignoring a standards based approach with their implementation doesn't make Bolt 12 the wrong choice.

Also from Ocean:

"Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us."

Is the same true for lnurl (I don't know the answer but I doubt it).

Keysend is a poor option because there is no way to show who a payment came from.