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22 sats \ 2 replies \ @deSign_r OP 24 Jun \ on: Lightning Transport Protocols: BOLT12, CLINK, L402 and NWC Design & Comparison Design lightning

Lightning Transport Protocols at a Glance

Here the summary

BOLT12CLINKL402NWC
🔌 Transport🧅 Onion messages📡 Nostr relays🌐 HTTP📡 Nostr relays
🔁 Direction↔️ Bidirectional↔️ Bidirectional⬆️ Server gated⬆️ Client server
📥 Receive offline✅ Yes (slow)✅ Yes❌ No❌ No
🏷️ Static codelno1...noffer1...402 WWW-Authenticatenostr+walletconnect://...
🔒 Behind NAT⚠️ Partial✅ Yes❌ No✅ Yes
📊 Maturity📋 Spec, limited🚀 Early production✅ Production✅ Production
⚡ LND support🔌 Sidecar only⚡ Via Lightning.Pub✅ Native🔌 Via LNC
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 24 Jun
Receive offline

correction on this one... nothing can make lightning receive offline, including CLINK, since lightning is inherently synchronous

I think the confusion on this is intentional misrepresentation by the bolt12 camp of retry schemes, since bolt12 was pushed heavily by mobile-node demand for ad-hoc receiving yet mobiles are default off-line

CLINK philosophy is you have a real node that's always online making money while you sleep

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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r OP 27 Jun

The intention was making it more intuitive for newbies. From a practical perspective somehow, hiding all the tech jargon, sats can still be received when the phone reconnects online.

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