258 sats \ 8 replies \ @And1 2 Sep 2022 \ on: How Lightning Address works bitcoin
Nice post, would love to see more!
Do you know why Ligthing Addresses look like Email Addresses?
I mean how can you distinguish them without context?
Alby has that problem. The convention they established so that their browser extension can figure out the difference is to prefix the Lightning address with "⚡", so then when it looks at a Twitter profile, or a description in a Youtube video and sees:
⚡
nym@stacker.newsit knows that is a Lightning address and it makes it a one-click step then to send that user a tip.
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for a HTML code it should have coded the difference using:
- mailto: user@email.com - for all email addresses
- lightning: name@domain.com - for all LN address
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Can still be done, right?
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Is not something that have to be implemented. Is already.
You can do it yourself, if you have a web page, just use that HTML code.
Other webmasters, just have to use that HTML code.
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It's not something that has to be implemented, as it is already implemented.
You can do it yourself, if you have a web page, just use that HTML code.
Other webmasters just have to use that HTML code.
There - I fixed it for you.
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I don't give a shit about "your fixes"...
Stop trolling useless shit.
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Not trolling Darth - I'm genuinely trying to help you here.
I know you only dispense wisdom and have no ability to receive it, but if you only could take off the blinders for a second - what I'm saying could help you a lot.
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Ok, but that still seems error prone to me, especially outside of html. I think it would be better if they were easier to distinguish. I could even imagine that someone has already tried to send an email to a LN address.
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