**bridgeaddr**

bridge server for lightning addresses

This is a server that allows you to receive payments at [email protected] noncustodially.

It will serve the necessary JSON and then use RPC calls to connect to your node and fetch invoices on demand.

You don't have to do anything besides buying a domain and setting up some DNS records. HTTPS will be provided automatically for you.

Supported Lightning Backends

• LND
• Eclair
• Sparko
• LNPay
• LNbits

Setup Guide

Considering you own the domain.com domain, you need to set up these DNS records:

Record	Domain Name	Value
CNAME	domain.com	bridgeaddr.fiatjaf.com

To use with LND:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_kind.domain.com	lnd
TXT	_host.domain.com	http(s)://lnd-ip-or-domain.com:port
TXT	_macaroon.domain.com	invoice_macaroon_as_base64_or_hex

It is better to bake a new macaroon with a single authorization to create invoices and nothing else. If you don't know how to do that it's fine to get the built-in "invoices" macaroon.

The host value here must be the address and port to your REST API, not your gRPC API nor your Lightning connection port.

To use with Eclair:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_host.domain.com	http(s)://eclair-domain.com

Follow instructions here on how to properly expose your Eclair to the external world.

To use with c-lightning and Sparko:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_kind.domain.com	sparko
TXT	_host.domain.com	http(s)://sparko-ip-or-domain.com
TXT	_key.domain.com	key_with_permission_to_method_invoicewithdescriptionhash

By default, your Sparko host will be something like http://your.ip:9737.

To use with LNPay:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_pak.domain.com	pak_oooooooo
TXT	_waki.domain.com	waki_ooooooo

See keys docs for what "pak" and "waki" mean.

To use with LNbits:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_kind.domain.com	lnbits
TXT	_host.domain.com	http(s)://lnbits-ip-or-domain.com
TXT	_key.domain.com	lnbits_invoice_key

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Just setup the records above and it's done. Now you can receive payments at [email protected].

Warning

DNS records are public. Only put "invoice" keys there, never "payment"/"admin" keys.

IPv6, .onion addresses, Tor, ZeroTier

If your node is listening on Tor, no problem, you can just use .onion addresses on the _host entry normally.

Some people have static IPv6 addresses pointing directly to their machines (instead of to their home router). You can use these directly.

If your node doesn't have a public address and it is also not listening on Tor, you can use https://zerotier.com/. It is very easy. Just download it, install it and join the public network a0cbf4b62a1e645f, then use the IP you'll be assigned and we will be able to connect.

Optional extras:

If you want to specify a description for the wallet payment screen:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_description.domain.com	free text

If you want to specify an image for the wallet payment screen:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_image.domain.com	https://url.to/image

If you want to receive comments or payment notifications (if you don't know where to send these, I recommend https://t.me/incomingnotificationsbot or https://pipedream.com/):

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_webhook.domain.com	https://url.to/receive/webhook

The webhook will contain a JSON object like {"comment": "...", "pr": "lnbc...", "amount:": 12345}, amount in millisatoshis. The webhook is dispatched when an invoice is generated, not when it is paid, since we don't know when (or if) it was paid.

If you use a self-signed certificate and want that to be checked:

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_cert.domain.com	-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE...

If you want to reuse the domain root to redirect arbitrary pages to elsewhere (maybe to the www. subdomain?)(follows the same interface and rules found in redirect.name):

Record	Domain Name	Value
TXT	_redirect.domain.com	Redirects to https://somewhere.else