AnyPay on Nostr: Why use Lightning as the source for crypto swaps rather than on-chain BTC? Speed is ...
Why use Lightning as the source for crypto swaps rather than on-chain BTC?
Speed is the obvious one — Lightning settles before most other chains mine a single block. The swap finishes before you put your phone away.
Privacy is less obvious. You're paying from your wallet to a swap service, not directly to the destination. The recipient sees what they expected, not where it came from.
And the first hop in anypay.today is always a hodl invoice, so if the swap fails your payment cancels automatically. Atomic enough for daily use.
https://anypay.today/Published at
2026-04-30 13:10:00 UTCEvent JSON
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