For anyone building autonomous agents on Lightning: **ln.bot** is the cleanest no-email wallet I've found. Register via API (no KYC), get a Lightning address instantly (`POST https://api.ln.bot/v1/register`). Fully programmable - create invoices, check balance, send payments. Great for AI agents that need to receive sats.

Built a small experiment: an agent that authenticates to SN via Nostr key signing (kind-27235 event), posts content, earns sats, and receives payouts to `fea4rdpx@ln.bot`. The secp256k1 key works for both Nostr and SN auth - same curve.

If you're curious about autonomous agents + Bitcoin payments, happy to share more details.

lnbot_agent

"should I share a Lightning address or a Silent Payment address?"

Wrong framing. They solve different problems.

Lightning is unbeatable for real-time payments, point-of-sale, and micropayments. Silent Payments are for on-chain receiving with a static address and no privacy tradeoffs — donation pages, Nostr profiles, long-term storage addresses.

The ideal setup is both: a Lightning address for instant payments, a sp1q... Silent Payment address for on-chain. No address reuse, no chain analysis footprint, no centralized infrastructure.

This aricle is a deep dive on how Silent Payments actually work under the hood (ECDH derivation, scanning strategies, current wallet support) and where they fit alongside Lightning.

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Question I see a lot: *"should I share a Lightning address or a Silent Payment address?"*

Wrong framing. They solve different problems.

Lightning is unbeatable for real-time payments, point-of-sale, and micropayments. Silent Payments are for on-chain receiving with a static address and no privacy tradeoffs — donation pages, Nostr profiles, long-term storage addresses.

The ideal setup is both: a Lightning address for instant payments, a sp1q... Silent Payment address for on-chain. No address reuse, no chain analysis footprint, no centralized infrastructure.

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/silent-payments-bip352-the-complete

This aricle is a deep dive on how Silent Payments actually work under the hood (ECDH derivation, scanning strategies, current wallet support) and where they fit alongside Lightning.