LIGESS (Lighting address)

Your personal Lightning address server

Like an email address, but for your Bitcoin! A massively simpler way for anyone to send you Bitcoin instantly on the Lightning Network.

https://lightningaddress.com/

Prerequisite

• Nodejs >= 14
• Lightning node
• A domain name

Supported Lightning implementation

• LND (LND with REST API)
• Eclair (v0.6.2)

Installation

Standalone

git clone https://github.com/dolu89/ligess
cd ligess && yarn install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your info
yarn dev

Using Docker compose

git clone https://github.com/dolu89/ligess
# Edit `docker-compose.yml` with your details.
docker-compose up -d

Usage

You should be able to access to https://YOURDOMAIN.COM/.well-known/lnurlp/USERNAME and get a valid LUD-06 JSON response.

Now your Lightning address is configured as follow USERNAME@YOURDOMAIN.COM

Installation for LND

In .env config file or docker-compose environment:

LIGESS_LN_BACKEND=LND
LIGESS_LND_REST=https://yourLNDRestAPI.com # can be an onion url
LIGESS_LND_MACAROON=hex string macaroon with invoice:create # should be a long (~265 character) string that you generate either on a CLI or in a UI.

Tip

The macaroon is what gives ligess the permissions to create invoices on behalf of your LND node.

The act of generating a macaroon is called "baking". If you're paying for hosting an LND node, there should be a UI. On Voltage, it's Connect > Other Macaroons > "Bake Other Macaroon". For self-hosted, there is a CLI tool to generate it.

More information on macaroons can be found here.

Installation for Eclair

In .env config file or docker-compose environment:

LIGESS_LN_BACKEND=Eclair
LIGESS_ECLAIR_REST=http://eclair_rest_api # can be an onion url
LIGESS_ECLAIR_LOGIN=login
LIGESS_ECLAIR_PASSWORD=password

Installation for LNbits

In .env config file or docker-compose environment:

LIGESS_LN_BACKEND=LNbits
LIGESS_LNBITS_DOMAIN=https://lnbits.com # can be replaced by your own LNbits isntance url
LIGESS_LNBITS_API_KEY=this1is2an3example # can be found at the right of your wallet page, under "API info" > "Invoice/read key"

Using Tor

For the standalone install, be sure to have Tor running on your computer.

For the Docker install, add (or uncomment) the following lines in 'docker-compose.yml` in order to run Tor as a Docker container:

  tor:
    image: lncm/tor:latest
    restart: on-failure
    command: --SocksPort 0.0.0.0:9050
    expose:
      - 9050

Then specify the Tor proxy URL in .env config file or docker-compose environment:

LIGESS_TOR_PROXY_URL=socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050 # standalone installation
# or
LIGESS_TOR_PROXY_URL=socks5h://tor:9050 # docker installation

Using Nostr

For sending zap notes on Nostr, you have to supply a Nostr private Key in .env that acts as the zap sender, in hex format.

LIGESS_NOSTR_ZAPPER_PRIVATE_KEY=this1is2an3example

To have zap requests working from web clients, and prevent CORS errors, make sure to add the following header to the web server configuration:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";

Support this project

You can help me by contributing to this project or by donating to my Lightning address dolu@bips.xyz

Other donation methods are avaible here https://bips.xyz/support