Intro to Lightning Addresses
Lightning addresses make use of internet identifiers like emails to improve the UX of payments on the lightning network. Instead of scanning a QR or copying an invoice, you can pay someone using a lightning address.
If your website is bitnob.com, you can now offer lightning addresses to your own customers in order for them to receive payments via lightning addresses. A sample lightning address for a bitnob.com customer will look like bernard@bitnob.com
The first part is the unique username of the user, the part after the @ is the domain of the issuer. Similar to emails.
A Lightning address is a layer on top of LNURL.
In order to get started with lightning addresses, you first need to set up LNURL as detailed in the guide here (opens in a new tab).
Sample Request
{
"identifier": "satoshi",
"identifierType": "username",
"tld": "bitnob.com",
"customerEmail": "satoshi@bitnob.com",
"satMinSendable": 1000, //satoshis
"satMaxSendable": 1000000 //satoshis
}
The address for the user indexed above will be satoshi@bitnob.com. Any wallet that can pay to a lightning address will be able to send payments of 1000 - 1, 000,000 sats to satoshi@bitnob.com