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 Okay, I just confirmed this:  Create an account with getalby.com   You'll get an ln address like babeswhobitcoin@getalby.com  Now put that into any QR generator and print it out.  I just tried this sending from MutinyWallet to my seperate account at Alby and it worked! https://image.nostr.build/  Here, I've even made the QR for you.  
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 Actually, you can do this same approach with any place that can create an LN address.  I would actually recommend getting a mutiny plus address.  @OpenSecret  Get https://www.mutinywallet.com/ 
 How did you make the QR code? Unsure how to do that with the ln address  
 One way, if you're on Debian/Ubuntu or similar, is from the terminal:

qrencode --type png --size 256 --output <filename>.png "lightning:<user>@<domain.tld>"

There are other output types such as "ansiutf8" that can output to the terminal. 
 LOL 
 Just type "qr code generator" into any search engine.  Paste in your ln address.  There's no risk of sharing or uploading an ln address.  
 I did that and it didn't generate 😬 I was using vipsats app 
 Huh, vipsats?  No, use Google or duckduckgo, any search engine will give you links to websites where you can paste text and spit out a qr code image for free that you can save. 
 Ya, I did that with an address from vipsats 

https://vipsats.app/ 
 It doesn't matter where you create an LN address.  A QR code is just a machine readable format.  You can put any text you like into a qr generator.  

Qr.io  
 ok yep! that one worked. the other generators I used did not work! thank you!!!