Blixt Quick Release Guide (Lightning Box)
Today Blixt Wallet released a new important feature that allow Blixt users to have their own Lightning Address, through a Lightning Box service.
Here are the release notes for this v0.6.9-420 (yes, the release number is to honor the ATH Bitcoin price).
For the moment the default LN Box is run by Blixt server and offer a @blixtwallet.com LN Address.
But ANYBODY with a LND public node can run the Lightning Box server and offer LN Address for its own domain, self-custody.
Right now, the Blixt server is only forwarding the payments to Blixt users. Users must put their Blixt node wallet in "persistent mode" in order to receive these payments to their @blixtwallet.com LN addresses.
Is like a chat over LN, instant and fun, also supporting LUD-18 (adding an alias name to a payment). You can add in contact list all your regular LN addresses you are using frecquently and have it at hand for chatting. Now Blixt can be considered a full LN chat app 😂😂.
Another useful feature is the full support fro LUD-18 (that also SN is supporting it).
As you can see in the screenshot attached, sending from SN account, it displayed nicely the logo + LN address + message.
Same works for sending from Blixt, you can attach your Blixt LN Address or simply add the alias name (previously set in Blixt settings), or both.
This option from LUD-18 could be useful also for subscription services, where user can send a specific alias (is NOT your node alias or your real name!) and based on that you could be registered or receive back a specific message or whatever else.
Attaching an alias name (LUD-18)+ comment (LUD-12) to a LN payment can have multiple use cases!
- See in the release notes the video demo about how to setup your LN Address in Blixt.
- Here is the code for Lightning Box if you run it for yourself, for your family and friends, on your own node.
- Here also you can run the LSP Dunder server for Blixt mobile nodes and offer liquidity for Blixt users if you have a good public LN node (works only with LND).
Happy Lightning with Blixt Node Wallet!