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Making and Receiving Payments
Discover how Lightning payments actually work — from invoices to Lightning addresses.
Course length: 0 mins 4 secs
Passing score: 80%
The BOLT 11 invoice format for requesting Lightning payments, covering invoice anatomy, creation, payment flow, expiry, routing hints, and the upcoming BOLT 12 Offers standard.
Sending Lightning payments spontaneously without an invoice using just the recipient's public key, enabling streaming sats, tips, boostagrams, and the Podcasting 2.0 ecosystem.
Technologies that bring email-like simplicity to Lightning payments, including LNURL-pay, LNURL-withdraw, LNURL-auth, and how Lightning Addresses work behind the scenes.
Practical methods for accepting Lightning tips and donations as a creator, podcaster, or business, covering setup options, platform integrations, Nostr zaps, and best practices.