One of the biggest err.. "challenges" for people to get their head around when it comes to Bitcoin Lightning Network is the idea of a lightning "invoice." Yes, in order to receive a payment on Bitcoin Lightning Network, you need to send someone an invoice with exactly how much you expect to get paid. This is tricky if you want to get payments that you're not exactly expecting, such as tips - especially if you want to receive them directly to your own Bitcoin Full Node, such as your Umbrel, MyNode, RaspiBlitz, etc.

Fortunately, there is a NEW protocol called LNURL, and something even built upon that called "The Lightning Address." This allows you to receive a Bitcoin Lightning Network payment - directly to your node - by simply giving someone an email address. Pretty cool, right?

But up until now, you've had to be very technical to do this directly to your own Bitcoin Lightning Network Node - or, rely on custodial lightning network implementations such as BlueWallet, ZeebeeDee, LNTXBOT, etc.

Fortunately, in THIS video, I'm going to show you a (mostly) trustless way to set up your very own Bitcoin Lightning Network Address - directly to your Bitcoin Full Node - that anyone can follow. I'll be demonstrating it on Umbrel, but it should be more or less the same for MyNode, RaspiBlitz, Citadel, etc.

🎥 IN THIS VIDEO: 🎥 🟧 What is a Lightning Address, and why should you care? (0:00) 🟧 What you'll need to get started (3:04) 🟧 Setting up your DNS records (6:23) 🟧 Finding the information you need from your Bitcoin Full node (Umbrel) (9:07) 🟧 Creating the Macaroon on your Bitcoin Full Node (Umbrel) (12:05) 🟧 Important Caveat: If you want to use your domain name for other things (13:58) 🟧 Alternative setup using a subdomain (if you use your website for other stuff) (14:44) 🟧 Testing out our new Lightning Address (17:43) 🟧 Warning: This is still not 100% trustless - here's why (19:31)

📣 RESOURCES MENTIONED: 📣 🔗 Lightning Address Guide by DarthCoin https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-to-use-lightning-address 🔗 Lightning Address Federated Server by fiatjaf https://bridgeaddr.fiatjaf.com 🔗 Namecheap: Get a .com domain for just $5.98 https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-to-use-lightning-address 🔗 Run your own federated Lightning Address server https://github.com/fiatjaf/satdress 🔗 How this stuff actually works (technical video)