If it stops there, might not have all that much utility. But a great case study I would hope. And a big motivator for bitcoiners inside the company.
Would be awesome if they invested in their payroll department to stream salaries to them. Each employee gets a page to see their balance incrementing & withdraw ahead of pay day.
I suspect they won’t get there though, due to the delights of payroll being a monthly exercise and ancient tax codes etc. Prove me wrong Saylor.
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Does that actually mean anything?
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Also misleading: emails have nothing to do with LN addresses, nor "converting" them into LN addresses. Is pure cheap FOMO.
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FAD move, for now. CHAD move, would be using it for payroll
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LOL so he have only slaves working for 21 sats? Or is paying them by doing online tasks, like clicking faucets?
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I would like to be paid 100 SATs per second
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0.576 Bitcoin a month, on a 40hr week. You’d be set!
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Seems reasonable to me
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I don't know why this could be useful. Maybe tips between employees?
"You gave me a hand today in the meeting, so here you have 1000 sats".
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Probably nothing...
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Cool, now someone should scrape all the emails to learn about the balances, etc.
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You can't get balance from someone's Lightning address. It's just protocol how to request Lightning invoice via HTTP.
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And where do you see wallet balance there?
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How learn?
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Can you elaborate with an example and some data, please? I cannot see any way to grab sensitive info.
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I asked about this previously, but I am glad to see this is possible. So in the future your personal email address can act as your payment address too? Currently Lightning addresses like me@getalby.com cannot be used for actual email it seems.
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Couple thoughts:
  • Good job MSTR for leading the way.
  • I can see dusting attacks happening more often to MSTR employees.
  • Is this an internal custodian lightning wallet for MSTR employees or can the direct lightning address to their own node?
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dust attacks. With a Lightning wallet. lol
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Dust attacks are onchain thing, you can't do that with Lightning Network.
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Could one not open a lightning channel with tainted BTC to a lighting node, then do a lightning transaction to Salyor@MicroStrategy.com.
Lightning does not enable it to happen but it gives people a easy to read address to send to vs finding a BTC address that is tied to a person.
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There is likely single LN node for all MicroStrategy employees.
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The Lightning Network is Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling solution designed to make bitcoin payments cheaper and faster.
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I'm a little torn about "@" adresses. I thought it was just an intermediate step until we gave static QR codes
But its adoption is fast 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ and it seems to be easier to people than I thought
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The hero we needed
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I think this actually is "probably nothing".
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Another big step towards hyperbitcoinization
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