Introducing the Ghost Address! 👻⚡

A Ghost Address is a Lightning Address for every lightning node, eliminating the reliance on custodial intermediaries to obtain a Lightning Address.  Ghost Addresses enable easy lightning payments directly to self-custody!
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What's a Ghost Address? 👻

It's the fusion of Phantom Payments first described by nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 with the simplicity of Lightning Addresses from nostr:npub1rvg76s0gz535txd9ypg2dfqv0x7a80ar6e096j3v343xdxyrt4ksmkxrck . It's all about making lightning transactions as easy as email. 📧⚡

Getting started is easy. Update to the latest Ghost-enabled Thunderhub.io , claim your Ghost Address, and step into the new era of self-custodied lightning zaps!
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Dive deeper into Ghost Addresses, how they work, and their impact on the Lightning Network in our latest blog post: https://amboss.tech/blog/ghost-addresses .

Lastly, Merry Christmas from the Amboss team! Now we can be sure that you'll be getting into the Christmas Spirit! 👻🎄


Someone much smarter than me, not hard to do, and much more knowledgeable about this type of thing. Thing can you explain this like I am a 5-year-old?

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A step in the right direction

For privacy proponents, please note that this approach grants to amboss...

- payer ip (can be obscured by vpn/tor)
- payee node info
- payee ip (may be obscured with router vpn)
- amount sent
- time invoice requested by payer
- time invoice paid by payer
- amboss is custodial for the lightning address (just like Olympus for Zeuspay, Voltage, Geyser, etc)

But still kind of neat for always online nodes looking for a lightning address without need for setting up their own clearnet LNURL server.

I rank this as better than zeuspay addresses to your node, but needs a proprietary setup on the server due to the thunderhub requirement. If you are running your own node though this should be feasible.

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Just bought mynode premium for this feature. If it does what I think it does, it's HUGE.

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This is great. When can we expect an nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct app update?


Waiting for this to become available on nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct.


Does this ghost address look like LNurl?


It will look just like a standard lightning address @ ghst.to


This is the bomb..


Hell ye I'm going to implement this. Do you know if you'll have to update it after every restart of the node like amboss has to for health checks?


Hmm you might want to check your Thunderhub config for this! That's not the usual experience...it works as long as Thunderhub is running.


This update coming to Umbrel or Start9 soon?


Yah its only when I update or restart the service it stops the connection


The wait for the new Ghost-enabled thunderhub is over! Now available on Umbrel!

Thanks for the lightning fast update!
👻⚡☂
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Updates have arrived for both Umbrel and Start9!


Time to go play! Thank you nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea !