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Why do we need third party hosted infrastructure (nostr relays) when we already have a wordpress server that can relay/generate BOLT11 itself (supported by all LN wallets)?

Seems like unnecessary complexity to require user's wallets to implement CLINK when the recipient is always online.

102 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Jul -420 sats

Are you going to run a Lightning node on the Wordpress server? Wordpress doesn't generate invoices, lightning nodes do, and most people use Wordpress in a shared-hosting setting.

Nostr lets a web app, whatever that happens to be including static pages... reach the node without the node itself needing a web-server / static ip / tunnel etc.

Having a CLINK-enabled node then also enables more p2p-like use-cases from that same node, such as nostr-clients or even wallet-to-wallet with an noffer code.

Time to face the reality of what has stifled Lightning adoption: Setting up traditional web infrastructure just to reach your node is not for the faint of heart, and failing to do so simply results in a node being a cost-center that is useless unless you're purely a tinkerer that likes ending the day with less sats than you started with.