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LNURL-pay works for boosts but not streaming payments

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So that means every time you pay somebody through ln your RP, there's a web server and a web request involved before the payment settlement happens. So now you've just increased the workload on the node by double,

Episode 99: Airhorns are LIT! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:12:06 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Dave explains that LNURL puts a web server in front of your Lightning node to generate invoices on request. Every payment then needs a web request before it settles, which doubles the load on the node. That's fine for occasional boostagrams but can't work for streaming per-minute payments.

Not in the audio. Transcript 'ln your RP' = LNURL-pay.

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  1. Episode 99: Airhorns are LIT! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:09:32 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    it can't work that you're you're going to do streaming payments.

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