How Laisee work
Lightning Laisee make use of several technologies. All components of the Lightning Laisee are open source.
The Laisee
Lightning Laisee typically come in the form of png files, printed on paper or as NFC cards. The actual Laisee is a LNURL, which looks like this:
LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7UM9DEJZUMRPD9EK2EFWDAEXWTMHD96XSERJV9MJ7C TSDYHHVVF0D3H82UNV9AJKU3M42YM4S7J8FF9XJNRWXFEKUUMS89V9QD9NA3J
A LNURL is a bech32 encoded URL, pre-fixed with LNURL. We can use a decoder to get the URL embedded in it: https://send.laisee.org/withdraw/api/v1/lnurl/enGuQ7XzGJJiLn2snsp9XP.
Opening the page in a web browser today will tell you that this Laisee has already been redeemed (ERROR: "Withdraw is spent."), but the first person to scan the QR code will see its contents:
{
"callback": "https://send.laisee.org/withdraw/api/v1/lnurl/cb/enGuQ7XzGJJiLn2snsp9XP",
"defaultDescription": "Happy New Year",
"k1": "7jxPR4nHhjEj8WxceFZ2aE",
"maxWithdrawable": 1000000,
"minWithdrawable": 1000000,
"tag": "withdrawRequest"
}
This tells us that the LNURL represents a withdrawal over 1 million milli-satoshi, or 1000 satoshi. Your Lightning wallet can now call the API above, present the key k1 and request the 1000 satoshi withdrawal together with a Lightning invoice. Once approved, the satoshi will be sent to your wallet from our node.
The Lightning Node
Laisee.org runs LND. You can find our node at 02e64da75794703de72e9a8d6394747bc40fd72d0121c5dda6c1bd845939e30bb7 both on @172.81.179.14:9735 and 235p6kn5odzvuvx4qmrzdf47xh2pjzfw36rnhbguzl3ym4ebcfodjuyd.onion:9735. Feel free to connect!
When we create our Laisee, we first have to fund this node with the appropriate amount of satoshi. All funds are held in this node until they are withdrawn by the recipient to a wallet to which they alone control the keys.
To manage our Laisee, we use LNBits. We also have scripts to help us with creating Laisee in bulk.