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Rizful.com: Free, easy-to-use homebase for Bitcoin on Lightning. ✉️ Free Lightning Address ⚡ Fast, reliable zaps & Lightning payments 🔌 Connect to hundreds of apps with NWC 🛡️ Enterprise-grade uptime & reliability Created by the team behind The Megalith Node, one of the biggest routing nodes on the Lightning Network.

Just tried manually. Still getting "payment failed".

Issue you will have: residential internet connections. They are not good for running serious lightning nodes.

Yes, lots of lightning services can receive sats but aren't set up to generate zap receipts....

Just about to add this to the home page:

--- Can I login with my Nostr account?

We have carefully designed Rizful for maximum security. At the same time, we have found that too many Nostr users have less-than-great security practices with their private keys. (For example, entering private keys into many websites and apps.) Since real money is involved, we don't allow users to login via Nostr, and we don't ever ask for your private Nostr key. A combination of email/password, plus optional 2-Factor authentication, is the battle-tested and secure way to protect your Rizful account. This also means that, if, in the future, you make a mistake with your Nostr keys, your Rizful account won't be vulnerable.

ok, just tested it and it worked!

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test zap successfully completed!

Looks like you might have set up a different Lightning address.. if you set up a Rizful address let us know so we can do a test zap!

Nice, good work! One more thing, you might want to add your Nostr public key to Rizful, so you can be "nip-05 verified" .... check out the tutorial for your Nostr client here... https://rizful.com/#use-rizful-with

We did some zap tests on this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, at craig@zap.bitcoin-cats.ca, over a period of about 1 hour. In each case, we found that your lightning address server did not respond correctly. (The failure point was when we did a GET request to your specified callback URL: https://zap.bitcoin-cats.ca/BTC/UILNURL/pay/lnaddress/Craig ). Your server did not produce an invoice, thus the zap failed. The error we got was "Lightning node could not generate invoice: The HTTP status code of the response was not expected (500).". If you wanted to fix this... you could try a free Rizful account -- https://rizful.com ... when u have it set up, pls reply here so we can do this ⚡zap test again.

Happy to help you troubleshoot. The tricky thing is that your Lightning Node could be fully online and working but still something is wrong with the code running at zap.bitcoin-cats.ca .... which makes zaps not work...

Happy to provide details. What do you mean by "the granularity of the NWC aspects"? ... Regarding the testing interval -- we're basically trying to test zaps over a period of time to get better latency measurements. Your latency of 5.4 seconds is not ideal (in our opinion), but it might not be bad enough for you to want to switch services...

Yes, there are definitely sovereignty tradeoffs in Lightning. If you want to run everything on your own hardware, and your hardware is (for example) behind a residential internet connection, and/or TOR, then zaps and other Lightning payments might be slow to confirm -- but maybe you're OK with that.

Regarding marketing and etc. -- the first version of our homepage yielded widespread complaints about "too much information" -- so we moved the detailed info on our node-in-the-cloud service to here: https://rizful.com/node_in_the_cloud ... there are tradeoffs to make we have learned not only in "how should I get my zaps" but "how can we introduce new users to Nostr and zapping without immediately scaring them away with complicated stuff."

Megalith LSP is coming back on online now. If you use Alby Cloud, your node should automatically re-connect. If you are self-hosting Alby, your node **might** automatically re-connect. If you find that the Megalith LSP channel is still offline 30 minutes from now, we recommend you restart Alby Hub and your backing lightning node. Apologies for the downtime.

You can now (finally!) get a Megalith LSP channel using a simple web form: https://megalithic.me/get_a_channel