Thread by @getAlby

Saylor turns all emails into a Lightning address at Microstrategy, did you get one yet?

The Lightning Address is a great innovation for onboarding people to #Bitcoin and #lightning adoption.

After all, If you can send an email, now you can transact in bitcoin.

How?? 👇🧵

⚡️A Lightning Address is just like an email address, just way cooler, it is in fact written in exactly the same format.
Example: [e-mail] - Email
[e-mail] - Lightning Address

⚡️Before the Lighting Address was a thing, people had to use a Lightning invoice which had on average at least 190 characters long. Yikes!! so lots of copy and pasting unless you had a superhuman memory 🙃Now it just simply could be your name ....@.....just like your email.

⚡️The Lightning Address also just like an email address has interoperability, it does not matter which domain you use after the @ you can still send Bitcoin transactions to any other Lightning Address even with a different domain.

⚡️So now there is no more needs to be requesting invoices and scanning QR codes to send your friend's Bitcoin. If you can send an email, you can very easily send a Bitcoin transaction to any Lightning Address.

⚡️It is very simple to send bitcoin using your Lightning address, no copy and paste simply enter your Lightning address, using Alby here you can see sending bitcoin to a Lightning address in less than 20 seconds.

⚡️Do you have a Lightning Address yet? There are lots of companies that can get you set up in seconds, to start sending and receiving Bitcoin with your own lightning address.

⚡️Of course, you can register a free personalized one with Alby, but you can also register with these other awesome companies building on the #LightningNetwork.
@Breez_Tech
@zebedeeio
@bottlepay
@fountain_app
@walletofsatoshi
@bitrefill
@CoinCorner
@LNMarkets

Also, check out the website for more informative facts.

lightningaddress.com