When do you anticipate Bolt12 will be implemented widely enough to begin replacing LNURL in applications where it will be the better option?
(Not sure how relevant that question is to your exact background)
I guess the big question is when support for Offers is implemented in LND. As far as I can tell, all the other implementations have already started work on Offers, or even support it, but the majority of the network still consists of LND nodes, and from what I understand, the maintainers of LND have so far signaled that they prioritize other projects over BOLT12 support, even to the extent that external developers offering to work on it got dissuaded.
So, I guess it’ll be until either the users that are really excited to use BOLT12 migrate to other LN implementations to the point that the node population significantly changes, or LND gets support.
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It is being pointed out to me that LND meanwhile aims to add support for blinded paths in Spring 2023: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7195#issuecomment-1352444897
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