lightning tips

[murdawkmedia]

Are there plans to incorporate lightning tips? I use them often and don't see them.

Cheers!

[hopitas]

It would be awesome if they were integrated into app, so they could be used as likes/zaps. No need to open external wallet.

[kiwiidb]

I agree that an integrated solution would provide top-notch UX, however the problem with current Lightning providers, both custodial and non-custodial, is that there is no common API. At Alby we've implemented the API of LND, CLN, Eclair and a whole host of custodial wallet providers. A possibility would be to integrate the LNDhub API. This would be interoperable with the following custodial wallet providers:

• Alby
• Bluewallet
• Kollider (coming soon)
• LNBits (has an extension with the LNDhub API)

In addition, you can run LNDhub yourself in front of your own node.

FYI, at Alby our accounts are powered by lndhub.go, an LNDhub server in Go with a PG backend.

A fallback mechanism for a user that does not want to do this would be to just hyperlink the lightning:lnbc.. links , which would open the user's wallet of choice on their phone, which is a bit worse UX-wise but is obviously interoperable with every Lightning wallet out there.

EDIT: I saw that LN invoices are already parsed and able to be opened by wallets. The lowest hanging fruit would thus be just support to fetch and open invoices from LN Addresses in bio's.

[vitorpamplona]

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