From a.raspitzu at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 10:48:03 2023 From: a.raspitzu at gmail.com (Andrea Raspitzu) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:48:03 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] SCIDADDRESS - a new address format? Message-ID: <673892b4a7b5dedef16c69affc648cc8a5d1d2ff@gmail.com> Dear lightning developers, I'd like to discuss a new address format to send and receive payments among LN wallets, think of a successor of the "Lightning Address", it's not a new BOLT and? neither needs to be part of the specs but i'm writing here to collect feedback from devs and wallet implementors. So far I've been calling it SCIDADDRESS and? at the very basic it's a *directed short channel id* that together with a channel_announcement can be used by the sender to get the node-id of the recipient,? then a keysend payment is sent to the recipient. I wrote here a comprehensive description with longer explanation and a small FAQ https://gist.github.com/araspitzu/415876f8bffd90a9d7d6b46a41b8914c. I believe with some work the new address format can be a UX improvement for mobile wallets and alike, especially because is reusable and short enough to be? remembered and communicated verbally, also it doesn't require running a webserver or trusting a third party. Best regards, Andrea. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: