⚡🖥️👾 Host your own Lightning Address on LND

Lighting Wallets like https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus, https://blixtwallet.github.io and many more allow us to send sats to Lighting Addresses like thats@satswellspent.com. We can hence pay without scanning the QR code of an invoice.

Pre-requisites

• An existing Domain name and static ip address to express the lighting address(e.g. user@domain.com)
• A public Lightning Network node with sufficient inbound liquidity to receive payments to your lightning address.
• Golang installation
• A Webserver and reverse proxy like Nginx or Caddy. (example setup instructions here)
• Certbot to serve http over TLS. This is required since calls to the LNURLP are done via https. (example setup instructions here)

Features

• Implements the LN address protocol to receive lightning payments to an email-like address.
• Can host multiple lightning addresses on the same server instance.
• Notification support for payment receipts via email, telegram, http and more to come.
• Nostr NIP 05 style account verification, see https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

Install and Setup

Clone & Build

go install github.com/hieblmi/go-host-lnaddr@latest

Configuration config.json

• RPCHost: Your lnd's REST endpoint e.g. "https://localhost:8080"
• InvoiceMacaroonPath: "/path/to/invoice.macaroon"
• TLSCertPath: "/home/user/.lnd/tls.cert",
• LightningAddresses: [ Array of preferred lightning addresses hosted by the server. Mine is: thats@satswellspent.com :-). This resolves to https://satswellspent.com/.well-known/lnurlp/thats ]
• MinSendable: 1000,
• MaxSendable: 100000000,
• CommentAllowed: If set to 0 the sender can't add a comment otherwise the number stands for the permitted number of characters.
• Tag: "payRequest",
• Metadata: [["text/plain","Welcome to satswellspent.com"],["text/identifier","thats@satswellspent.com"]],
• Thumbnail: "/path/to/thumbnail.[jpeg|png]",
• SuccessMessage: "Thank you!",
• InvoiceCallback: "https://[YOUR_DOMAIN].com/invoice/" - this is the endpoint that will create the invoice
• AddressServerPort: 9990 - the port your reverse proxy points to
• Nostr: { "names": {...}, "relays": {...} } - See https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md#example for details.
• Notificators: [ { "Type": "mail", "Target": "username@example.com", "MinAmount": 1000, "Params": { "From": "thats@satswellspent.com", "SmtpServer": "smtp.satswellspent.com:587", "Login": "thats@satswellspent.com", "Password": "somerandompassword" } } ]

Run

$GOBIN/go-host-lnaddr --config /path/to/config.json

Notes

This stuff is experimental. I appreciate your comments and if you have questions please raise an issue. I just recently setup my own address this way so feel free to send me some sats if you think this has been helpful to you.

⚡ thats@satswellspent.com