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It may sound like a magical feat, but anyone can set it up. Here’s how.
of Lightning Network, a faster and more scalable cousin of Bitcoin, which fixes Bitcoin’s scalability problems. Traditionally, when someone wants to receive Lightning payments, they generate a Lightning invoice.—A long scrambled string that is not human readable.
To combat this, lightning address The standard has spread across the industry, replacing long, ugly invoices with familiar email addresses.
as shown in Lightning Address Website, Zebedee, Alby, Breez, and many other Lightning services across the industry provide an easy way to set up one of these addresses.Each service has a unique domain—Choose what you like.
Here we use Bitcoin gaming app Zebedee, one of the proponents of Lightning addresses.
As soon as you install Zebedee on your phone, you will be asked to create a “gamertag”. This is simply a Lightning address with another name.
Select “Gamertag” in Zebedee.Image: Zebedee
select a name and—Look! You have created a Lightning address. It’s as easy as that.
Note that the Lightning industry is still in its flowering phase, so Lightning addresses aren’t available everywhere. The Lightning Addresses website lists Lightning Wallets and services that support sending and receiving payments using Lightning Addresses.
If you want to get really fancy, you can even add Lightning support to your own personal domain, like Saylor did. MicroStrategy.com(Note that you must own the domain to do this. gmail.com For example email. )
Setting this up is also pretty easy, as long as you can upload files to your website server. on Twitter.
First, install the Alby browser extension available for Chrome and Firefox and set up an account with Alby. Create a new Lightning address at the bottom of the account creation page.
Create an Alby account.Image: Alby
Then go here: https://getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/<ユーザー名>For example, my username is “alyssa”, so https://getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/Alyssa
If all goes well, your page should look like this:
Download user files in Alby.Image: Alby
Then download the file locally and click in the top left corner[保存]to make it available in the next step. If you remove the “.json” at the end, the filename will be your username.
Once configured, upload this file to the same location on your website server.For example, if the domain is http://bitcoinrulez.comUpload files to https://bitcoinrulez.com/.well-known/lnurlp/<ユーザー名>
that’s all! Now you can send Lightning Payments to emails on that domain and see if it works. If you followed the steps correctly, people, like Michael Saylor, will be able to send sats directly to your email address.
The views and opinions expressed by the authors are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment or other advice.
