nothing-stops-this-train

Product engineer at @npub1rlzsc5v9v9f7gg5t2rv7yn0cznfjag2vdhnjw8sg34d6x5ad52fqpctl4r

Satoshi did it for us. Now we have to do it for him.

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2026-07-06 15:27:55 GMT

Electrum is the only lightning wallet for Linux desktop*, and one of the few for other desktop platforms. Unfortunately, the minimum lightning channel size you can make in Electrum costs around $200 USD. This is a real barrier to entry for many users. I've made a Github issue/PR about it, feedback from Electrum actual users would be appreciated. For reference, Zeus and other wallets based around LND use minimum channel sizes of around $20.
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/10730
*There are other lightning wallets you can run but not as native desktop apps. They require knowledge of terminal, docker, and a bunch of other not normie friendly stuff.

2026-07-06 15:24:58 GMT

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I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but basically:
A LNURL is basically just a web server running at somesite.com. To pay somebody with a lightning address, like [email protected], your wallets loads rizful.some/lightning/yourname. The web server (rizful) talks to your lightning node/wallet and gets an invoice which can be paid. But this requires running the web server in the first place.
CLINK gets rid of that. Instead of having a web server, you essentially use a nostr relay as your web server.

2026-07-01 21:14:11 GMT

I am proud to report that Electrum wallet now supports CLINK. Accept Lightning payments in your Electrum wallet via nostr. No port forwarding required. Electrum now joins @@nprofile…jc4m wallet in having CLINK support. https://github.com/BareBits/electrum_clink/