According to the
documentation, for all intents and purposes, you must be hosting your own email server in order to use this program. You cannot use popular email providers such as gmail (unless such email provider decides to offer this type of service in the future).
no you don't have to host your own email server to offer a lightning address. it only uses the known format of an email address, besides that, it has nothing to do with email or email hosting or email servers. you are right, that gmail doesn't offer lightning address atm
Well, according to the documentation, you need to control the domain in order for this to work as intended. For example, if my email is
PN7@google.com, if someone was directed to go to google_ln_payments.com/.well-known/lnurlp/PN7 in order to pay me via LN, how would they know the owner of
PN7@google.com would receive the payment? Anyone who controls the other domain would be able to receive the payment.
I don't see many email providers offering this type of service due to the increased risk of account hijackings. The majority of email services are intended for personal use, and this type of service is really for business users.
i disagree about that last part. we are basically talking about sending bitcoin, that is personal
In general, someone receiving a "personal" number of payments can create a LN invoice (or generate a bitcoin address) on an ad-hoc basis manually. A business will typically need to automate the generation of LN invoices and the generation of bitcoin addresses for their customers to pay.
