Post
Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: [Lightning] The Lightning Address
by
Syke
on 09/09/2021, 03:08:33 UTC
Like this: pay me 0.1BTC
It is easy to use, it is readable and when you click it (assuming you have a bitcoin wallet installed that supports URL:bitcoin protocol) it will open it and fill in every information with a transaction ready to be signed.

That works because bitcoin addresses don't expire. But you shouldn't do that.  A wise man once said:

it's best to use bitcoin addresses only once.

You can't do that with Lightning invoices because they do expire. Hence Lightning Addresses, don't expire and don't expose your privacy.