matt on Nostr: This idea that lightning nodes, by default, store every single invoice or offer you ...
This idea that lightning nodes, by default, store every single invoice or offer you generate over RPC is insane. There’s no reason to bloat the DB and expose users to DoS risk if they generate invoices automatically, the damn things can be stateless and additional metadata you need can be stored in the invoice and retrieved on payment, rather than stored.
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2026-07-17 11:42:10 UTCEvent JSON
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