New Service: Lightning Address / Wallet

bumi · September 26, 2021, 3:36pm

The Lightning Address is an Internet Identifier that allows anyone to send you Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. No scanning of QR codes or pasting invoices necessary.

For more information check out the website: lightningaddress.com

We could allow users to also use their Kosmos account to receive lightning payments (through the lightning address spec)
For this we either could allow users to connect their node or provide a custodial wallet (though something like LNDHub)

There are some Lightning address implementations we could use. For example:

GitHub - nbd-wtf/satdress: Federated Lightning addresses server.

raucao · November 16, 2021, 5:18pm

@bumi and I talked about the best solutions for implementing this and came up with the rough solution:

Use LndHub for Lightning accounts for each kosmos.org account. This allows showing a QR code to connect BlueWallet with your Kosmos account wallet
Add a wallet page to https://accounts.kosmos.org, which uses the LndHub API to show e.g. the setup QR Code, or even allows to send and withdraw sats (later)
Move the static site on kosmos.org from 5apps to a VM. This has to be done for Webfinger anyway
Add a lightweight service for the Lightning Address HTTP flow, maybe just a Lua module for Nginx
- The service could also create the actual LndHub wallet for a user only when the first request for the address is coming in. Could also just be done as a signup service in akkounts though.

I’m having a stab at setting this up. The next logical step is to add easy LN payments to Hyperchannel. Because with XMPP, you could automatically show that a JID can receive sats and even manage the sending workflow with that, without the user having to think about any of the underlying tech. Pretty awesome!

raucao · November 17, 2021, 5:09pm

Just got struck by the obvious thing we somehow didn’t see: we can turn XMPP room JIDs into Lightning addresses, so you can send sats to a room/project! Then we can use XMPP room permissions for managing access to that wallet.

raucao · November 26, 2021, 10:42pm

You may have already seen it, but all Kosmos accounts can now receive sats to their user address username@kosmos.org!

https://accounts.kosmos.org/wallet

Please consider this service beta quality for now, and don’t stash millions of sats in there. Enjoy!

raucao · November 30, 2021, 2:42pm

Quick update:

I have been using my Kosmos wallet to pay for things here in El Salvador for the last 2 days. Payments were always fast, and never failed.

However, when I tried to use the “refill with external wallet” option in Blue Wallet, which gives you an on-chain address for the LND node, lndhub didn’t pick up my transaction and update my balance. So maybe don’t use that feature, until we know what’s going on there.

raucao · November 30, 2021, 2:54pm

LOL:

github.com

BlueWallet/LndHub/blob/9563cb97142bdf52347745459d1755d281928c91/class/User.js#L507


      
          }
          
          /**
           * Fetches all onchain txs for user's address, and compares them to
           * already imported txids (stored in database); Ones that are not imported -
           * get their balance added to user's balance, and its txid added to 'imported' list.
           *
           * @returns {Promise<void>}
           */
          async accountForPosibleTxids() {
            return; // TODO: remove
            let onchain_txs = await this.getTxs();
            let imported_txids = await this._redis.lrange('imported_txids_for_' + this._userid, 0, -1);
            for (let tx of onchain_txs) {
              if (tx.type !== 'bitcoind_tx') continue;
              let already_imported = false;
              for (let imported_txid of imported_txids) {
                if (tx.txid === imported_txid) already_imported = true;
              }
          
              if (!already_imported && tx.category === 'receive') {

Edit: I opened an issue for it upstream:

github.com/BlueWallet/LndHub

On-chain funds are missing from user balance (code disabled)

opened 03:03PM - 30 Nov 21 UTC

raucao

I was wondering why my on-chain refill from Blue Wallet didn't show up in my lnd…hub account balance. Didn't have to go far to find out that the code is just disabled with a return and a "TODO" comment to re-activate it. As there's no issue for this, I'm creating one. Maybe one of the core developers could let us know why it's disabled, and what needs to be done in order to remove the return statement again? https://github.com/BlueWallet/LndHub/blob/9563cb97142bdf52347745459d1755d281928c91/class/User.js#L506-L508 Edit: simply removing the line results in the following exception when calculating the balance: ``` listtransactions error: Error: {"result":null,"error":{"code":-18,"message":"Requested wallet does not exist or is not loaded"},"id":"a7fa1613-b9e8-4aaf-b817-7c7deafad634"} at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/opt/lndhub/node_modules/jayson/lib/client/http.js:78:23) at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:326:22) at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:483:12) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1241:12) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) { code: 500 } ```

raucao · January 8, 2022, 11:21pm

I fixed the on-chain topups (or rather the balance accounting for the accounts) today, so you can now use those addresses and it will be reflected in your balance available for Lightning transactions:

bumi · January 12, 2022, 10:39pm

I was thinking about email forwarding again.
And it seems my email provider is supporting “split deliveries” to forward emails if no account is configured. that means I can forward an email to a subdomain and for example use AWS SES to receive that email and then use Lambda to forward that email to the user’s email.

This uses AWS services (but thus is also cheap and requires minimum setup) but this could be implemented with any email provided that somehow supports incoming emails (e.g. webhooks for incoming emails)

raucao · January 13, 2022, 3:49pm

Notes from call:

Set up auto-reply for catch-all address, telling the sender that there’s no email service on that address
Forwarding should be self-hosted, but needs decent spam protection

raucao · January 26, 2022, 5:05pm

I had a look into this, and unfortunately there is no support for catch-all addresses at Gandi at the moment.