weev on Nostr: Lightning addresses are unacceptably dependent upon centralized identity tokens ...
Lightning addresses are unacceptably dependent upon centralized identity tokens (domain names) that have a history of heavy censorship by courts, activist NGOs, governments, registrars and registries. What if someone who is not allowed to use the Internet is using a domain provider, and the registrar or registry decides to suspend the domain? The Lightning standard needs to support onion addresses natively.
Published at
2026-05-02 06:35:01 UTCEvent JSON
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"id": "e32a56d792c639ec8929b94ef1dbff707acb5dde465410c7f29baf5a4f75a3b6",
"pubkey": "7672c39dd8ac61f16a52f81578bfebdb5f8c70bc5a7277656ab5ba67bb590f58",
"created_at": 1777703701,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "Lightning addresses are unacceptably dependent upon centralized identity tokens (domain names) that have a history of heavy censorship by courts, activist NGOs, governments, registrars and registries. What if someone who is not allowed to use the Internet is using a domain provider, and the registrar or registry decides to suspend the domain? The Lightning standard needs to support onion addresses natively. ",
"sig": "37e81627d6b00ed3bb016a22bd6ddd8e4b415a5ea0bae82db9df1c8ed272b23230abe4e2b88b9941cc03d72a16b6cac1a8b03efd863ec626ea9f04d0d1e7ef16"
}
