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 Hey nostriches,

BOLT 12: yay or nay? Why? 
 🧡 
 I think 🤔
yay!!! 😅🤙 
 What does BOLT 12 solve? What is the user experience?

I don’t care about how it is done. I care about what it does. 
 YES and YES🤙🏽 
 Yay, I’ve been told for the past 3 years that this will fix many problems we have in PC 2.0 but it’s been teased for so long it is now a meme for us. 
 I'm leaning towards nay, but I need to do much more learning about lightning.

It would be my dream for opposing strong technical minds to debate this in some long-form medium.   
 If anything close to this exists, please refer me! 
 Yay, because privacy. 
 Yes, reusable private QR codes are extremely useful. Also, the payer has the ability to prove that they are the ones paying is a nice feature 
 Yes. I look forward to its release in the year 2124 
 Offers are what I'm looking forward to if BOLT12 ever releases. That would solve so much of the overhead involved with invoices when trying to send sats to someone. 
 Until I see it in action, indifferent 
 Yay, I heard it was good 
 It's clunky and we don't need it anymore. 
 YAY BECAUSE I THINK IT WILL BE NEEDED FOR LIGHTNING PAYOUTS ON @OCEAN 👀 
 Yay because Bolt 12 enables common payment modes that don’t presently exist on lightning 
 RECURRANCE

It'd be so amazing UX for people subscribing to things, like relay services. No nagging DM notifications to pay a bill. 
 I love bolt 12 so that we don't have what we just got, bitrefill allows you do specify what wallet you're using with lightning.  
 Yay.  It sucks having to run a bunch of extra services to accept lud16 payments.   Additionaly a lightning address requires dns records pointing to registered domains and can be a privacy problem.

#bolt12  #wtf_lnd? 
 Yay.

Bolt 12 is *the* top priority on the lightning roadmap afaic.

If Zeus implements Bolt 12, then it will become my default lightning wallet. 
 Do you run a CLN node? 
 Only insofar as I have Green wallet on one of my devices, which is backended by Greenlight.

I've been travelling for a while but the last node ran I was *cough* LND *cough* which liked to crash into a corrupt config without the ability to regain a stable state... to the extent that I started to wonder whether that behaviour is LND's main feature. (Lost some sats, but a useful lesson, and interesting to learn about Lightning Labs links with the WEF)

CLN will be the next implementation that I run; I have a project in mind, so very keen to further experiment with Greenlight.

N.B. I'm a product guy and not a dev.

 
 check out this bolt12 prism plugin https://github.com/gudnuf/bolt12-prism 
 yay