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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar \ parent \ on: I built a self-hosted Lightning payment server (BOLT12 + LN Address + Nostr) bitcoin

BOLT12 is just a useless marketing campaign, run by few people pushing this useless bolt.
BOLT12 is totally useless, you are not going to pay a merchant to a BOLT12 offer... cmon, any merchant is a PUBLIC FACE FFS!

What is more necessary are blinded path routing. but seems that people have no idea what is that... #1461422

Let's stop this bullshit madness with BOLT12, it doesn't serve to anything.

And all you describe is just a... BOLT11 fallback and LN address. So all for nothing.

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Alex71btc OP 28 Mar

try it and you will see that it actually creates real offers and uses blinded paths.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Alex71btc OP 28 Mar

I think you're mixing two things here.

A lot of BOLT12 discussion is indeed theoretical — agreed.

But this project is explicitly about testing real-world usage using LNDK, including actual offers and blinded paths, not just wrapping BOLT11 behind LNURL.

Also, merchants don't have to expose a static public invoice endpoint — that’s exactly where offers + blinded paths can change UX and privacy assumptions.

Totally fair to be skeptical, but dismissing it as “useless” ignores what’s actually being implemented and tested here.

Happy to go into specifics if you're interested.

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