yavin5 on Nostr: Hmm. Well. There are some confused people! Let me explain. First I'll say that I'm a ...
Hmm. Well. There are some confused people!
Let me explain. First I'll say that I'm a software engineer with some decades of experience working at places you've heard of. I've been using Bitcoin for greater than 6 years, but didn't ever use Lightenjng (it seemed too sketchy, and I avoided it until now, when j began using NOSTR).
I tried to set my lightening wallet using Amethyst (Primal gives me two wallet options I've never heard of.. so..). I saw no explanation in Amethyst about how to initialize a lightening wallet so I went and read multiple web pages to try to understand what I should do, and also tried to understand the terminology. I didnt see any clear definition of "lightening address". There appears to be N different formats of addresses and companies involved for some reason (?), but ok.... I ended up choosing noah (dot) me and created a wallet.
I went into my profile in Amethyst and it wouldn't accept any lightening address that I had. I have to admit that I gave up after around an HOUR of trying to get the app to accept the noah address. I decided I must be doing something wrong if it took an hour to fail at adding my wallet address, but I didn't have any clear examples of what a lightening address _could_ look like.
Eventually I was able to generate an address that begins with "ln" and I thought okay, that probably stands for Lightening Network, and it's an address, so it is obviously a lightening network address, and when I pasted it into Amethyst, Amethyst accepted it on the first try. Done! That's what worked. Except no!
Now about terminology:
"LNURL": In internet terminology something is a URL when it has a protocol and a path in that protocol, usually separated with a colon. For examples http://host and about:config . What you're calling an "LNURL" doesn't qualify. It isn't a URL. It may be an address, however. But if the Lightening devs call this a URL then I'm glad if it's deprecated because you're going to confuse literally every new user who attempts to read about it.
"Lightening address": without this being clearly defined and working _as defined_ users will be confused and things won't work. Who has the link to the clear and working definition? If it's user@host, that is commonly known as an "email address", all except that ssh began using that syntax as a shell account address (a far less commonly used, far less commonly known use case than email). If Lightening wants to use email addresses then they should say "email address" if anyone cares about potential user confusion.
*sigh*
My lightening wallet email address is: yavin5@noah.me
Amethyst wallet settings attached, for reference.
Let me explain. First I'll say that I'm a software engineer with some decades of experience working at places you've heard of. I've been using Bitcoin for greater than 6 years, but didn't ever use Lightenjng (it seemed too sketchy, and I avoided it until now, when j began using NOSTR).
I tried to set my lightening wallet using Amethyst (Primal gives me two wallet options I've never heard of.. so..). I saw no explanation in Amethyst about how to initialize a lightening wallet so I went and read multiple web pages to try to understand what I should do, and also tried to understand the terminology. I didnt see any clear definition of "lightening address". There appears to be N different formats of addresses and companies involved for some reason (?), but ok.... I ended up choosing noah (dot) me and created a wallet.
I went into my profile in Amethyst and it wouldn't accept any lightening address that I had. I have to admit that I gave up after around an HOUR of trying to get the app to accept the noah address. I decided I must be doing something wrong if it took an hour to fail at adding my wallet address, but I didn't have any clear examples of what a lightening address _could_ look like.
Eventually I was able to generate an address that begins with "ln" and I thought okay, that probably stands for Lightening Network, and it's an address, so it is obviously a lightening network address, and when I pasted it into Amethyst, Amethyst accepted it on the first try. Done! That's what worked. Except no!
Now about terminology:
"LNURL": In internet terminology something is a URL when it has a protocol and a path in that protocol, usually separated with a colon. For examples http://host and about:config . What you're calling an "LNURL" doesn't qualify. It isn't a URL. It may be an address, however. But if the Lightening devs call this a URL then I'm glad if it's deprecated because you're going to confuse literally every new user who attempts to read about it.
"Lightening address": without this being clearly defined and working _as defined_ users will be confused and things won't work. Who has the link to the clear and working definition? If it's user@host, that is commonly known as an "email address", all except that ssh began using that syntax as a shell account address (a far less commonly used, far less commonly known use case than email). If Lightening wants to use email addresses then they should say "email address" if anyone cares about potential user confusion.
*sigh*
My lightening wallet email address is: yavin5@noah.me
Amethyst wallet settings attached, for reference.