Kolomona on Nostr: jack mallers Is there a real technical reason why Strike does not support keysend ...
jack mallers (npub1cn4…3vle)
Is there a real technical reason why Strike does not support keysend payments?
Popdcasting 2.0 relies heavily on it. Other solutions like bolt 11 (lnurl) are far inferior for podcast apps to use.
Too many slow http lookups making proper splits impractical, not enough room for metadata (boostagrams) and others.
Keysend is a legitimate part of the Lightning protocol and has been used now for millions of transactions which have helped to not only foster BTC adoption but has been able to finally allow direct payments from a listener to a musician.
Another keysend benefit is that transactions done through an RSS feed are publicly audit-able. Which makes it harder for scammers to hide skimming off the top.
Most lnurl solutions for handling splits require a 3rd party to facilitate the splits on behalf of the listener which not only adds another point of failure or potential fraud, but may bring into legal "money transmitter" issues. (I'm not a lawyer so I'm not for sure about this)
adamcurry (npub13ql…qcg7) says that you and Dave Jones (npub1qx6…qf4d) have discussed this and you are not interested in supporting keysend.
I implore you to reconsider.
BTC is supposed to be peer to peer cash. lnurl throws in a 3rd party (or service) into the mix which eliminates the peer to peer nature of the transaction.
Keysend is true peer to peer, no web servers needed, just one node sending value to another node over a native protocol.
Many in this community feel that we are being forced into using sub par solutions because the big companies don't want to implement keysend.
Again, please reconsider supporting keysend within Strike.
Is there a real technical reason why Strike does not support keysend payments?
Popdcasting 2.0 relies heavily on it. Other solutions like bolt 11 (lnurl) are far inferior for podcast apps to use.
Too many slow http lookups making proper splits impractical, not enough room for metadata (boostagrams) and others.
Keysend is a legitimate part of the Lightning protocol and has been used now for millions of transactions which have helped to not only foster BTC adoption but has been able to finally allow direct payments from a listener to a musician.
Another keysend benefit is that transactions done through an RSS feed are publicly audit-able. Which makes it harder for scammers to hide skimming off the top.
Most lnurl solutions for handling splits require a 3rd party to facilitate the splits on behalf of the listener which not only adds another point of failure or potential fraud, but may bring into legal "money transmitter" issues. (I'm not a lawyer so I'm not for sure about this)
adamcurry (npub13ql…qcg7) says that you and Dave Jones (npub1qx6…qf4d) have discussed this and you are not interested in supporting keysend.
I implore you to reconsider.
BTC is supposed to be peer to peer cash. lnurl throws in a 3rd party (or service) into the mix which eliminates the peer to peer nature of the transaction.
Keysend is true peer to peer, no web servers needed, just one node sending value to another node over a native protocol.
Many in this community feel that we are being forced into using sub par solutions because the big companies don't want to implement keysend.
Again, please reconsider supporting keysend within Strike.