Lightning Service Authentication Token

Many people are already using this and probably don’t even realize it.

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I like this idea! But why not just request a valid ecash token as a part of the header? The first couple steps seem superfluous to me.

EDIT: Perhaps it lets you have a sort of authentication step. Instead of providing an API auth token, you have to successfully pay a LN invoice instead.

bitcoin

Anonymous paid API-calls.

taxd

I like this idea! But why not just request a valid ecash token as a part of the header? The first couple steps seem superfluous to me. 

EDIT: Perhaps it lets you have a sort of authentication step. Instead of providing an API auth token, you have to successfully pay a LN invoice instead.