Lightning generally works on invoices (permissioned, one time use) which is great when you're buying something physical and/or need a reciept. Its a permissioned one-time event and makes sense for normal purchases.
But thats not what this is. Here we have a product (music) sat on a shelf for anyone to freely use. When someone pays, theres no explicit exchange of goods/services in the traditional checkout sense. We're talking tip jar... Keysend is the tip jar, you can permissionlessly stick money in there.
You're already receiving the service. But because you appreciate the work, you stick the money in the jar. End of transaction. No one needed to give you permission to drop the money in. Keysend is permissionless like that. A static address anyone can push payments to without needing any action or expiring single use transactions on the recipient side. The jar is always open.
Would it make sense to go to a show and every time someone wants to put cash in the tip jar, it requires the band to send them a bill first? No that's insanity.
If the transaction makes sense to provide a reciept (like buying a CD) then lightning invoicing makes sense. But the added friction of an invoice is entirely unnecessary in the context of tipping a performance, especially prerecorded streaming.
Right tools for the right job people...
quotingDerek Ross (nprofile…9kky) yesterday or a few days ago you mentioned something about how the future of all this stuff on nostr and wallets etc. Maybe? Or perhaps its just an excuse to tag the CEO for help pushing this agenda... anyways...
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I think the most compelling and fastest growing part of nostr "other stuff" is the music scene. Most all existing library is using keysend. And it's a perfect working solution that just works permissionlessly with no fuss. Some wallets say it's too hard to implement for shared wallets as its a node side implementation... but fountain has already built a solution that works. We need more options than just fountain or we will centralize, yet again.
I would appreciate a wider push for custodial wallets to support keysend. As someone in the trenches, i can guarantee it will make a significant impact on onboarding artists.
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