CLINK might just be the upgrade Lightning has been waiting for.
If you’ve ever used LNURL or Bolt12, you know the pain points: setup complexity, the need for a web server, or message delivery speeds that feel stuck in the dial‑up era. CLINK flips the script it uses nostr as the transport for invoices, with end‑to‑end encryption and identity baked in. No trusted middlemen, no secret pre-sharing, and it works with any open relay.
What’s exciting is how Lightning.pub rolled it out one line in your terminal and you’ve got a nostr‑powered account system over LND. That’s a dramatic cut in friction for running a personal Lightning node.
This isn’t just a small tweak. Lightning via nostr messaging could be a major step toward genuine peer‑to‑peer payments online. It’s fast, secure, and finally feels simple enough for everyday use.
Five years from now, people might look back at CLINK as one of those “quiet” upgrades that ended up reshaping Bitcoin’s payment experience.
CLINK might just be the upgrade Lightning has been waiting for.
If you’ve ever used LNURL or Bolt12, you know the pain points: setup complexity, the need for a web server, or message delivery speeds that feel stuck in the dial‑up era. CLINK flips the script it uses nostr as the transport for invoices, with end‑to‑end encryption and identity baked in. No trusted middlemen, no secret pre-sharing, and it works with any open relay.
What’s exciting is how Lightning.pub rolled it out one line in your terminal and you’ve got a nostr‑powered account system over LND. That’s a dramatic cut in friction for running a personal Lightning node.
This isn’t just a small tweak. Lightning via nostr messaging could be a major step toward genuine peer‑to‑peer payments online. It’s fast, secure, and finally feels simple enough for everyday use.
Five years from now, people might look back at CLINK as one of those “quiet” upgrades that ended up reshaping Bitcoin’s payment experience.