Lightning and other payment methods
Mint and melt need a payment method. Most Cashu mints use Lightning.
NUT-23 is BOLT11 invoices. NUT-25 is BOLT12 offers. NUT-24 is HTTP 402, so a website can demand Cashu for a resource. NUT-30 mints and melts over on-chain bitcoin.
These specs plug into NUT-04 and NUT-05. Read those first if this chapter feels like it is missing the beginning of the story.
In this chapter
- NUT-23 — Payment method: BOLT11
- NUT-25 — Payment method: BOLT12
- NUT-24 — HTTP 402 Payment Required
- NUT-30 — Payment method: on-chain