Lightning Network invoice (BOLT 11)
ID lightning_invoice
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Payment request of the Lightning Network as defined by BOLT 11. The human-readable part is ln, the network (bc for Bitcoin mainnet, tb for testnet, tbs for signet, bcrt for regtest) and an optional amount with a multiplier (m, u, n or p). The Bech32 data part, without the 90-character limit of BIP 173, holds a timestamp, tagged fields such as the payment hash, description and expiry, and the signature of the payee. Invoices are written in lower case, or in upper case in QR codes.
- Categories
- Cryptocurrency, Finances and banking
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Check digit
bech32- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^(?:ln(?:bcrt|bc|tbs|tb)[0-9]*[munp]?1[02-9ac-hj-np-z]+|LN(?:BCRT|BC|TBS|TB)[0-9]*[MUNP]?1[02-9AC-HJ-NP-Z]+)$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| lnbc1pvjluezsp5zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zygspp5qqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqypqdpl2pkx2ctnv5sxxmmwwd5kgetjypeh2ursdae8g6twvus8g6rfwvs8qun0dfjkxaq9qrsgq357wnc5r2ueh7ck6q93dj32dlqnls087fxdwk8qakdyafkq3yap9us6v52vjjsrvywa6rt52cm9r9zqt8r2t7mlcwspyetp5h2tztugp9lfyql | BOLT 11 example, donation of any amount |
| lnbc2500u1pvjluezsp5zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zygspp5qqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqypqdq5xysxxatsyp3k7enxv4jsxqzpu9qrsgquk0rl77nj30yxdy8j9vdx85fkpmdla2087ne0xh8nhedh8w27kyke0lp53ut353s06fv3qfegext0eh0ymjpf39tuven09sam30g4vgpfna3rh | BOLT 11 example, 2500 micro-BTC for a cup of coffee |
| lnbc2500u1pvjluezsp5zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zyg3zygspp5qqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqypqdq5xysxxatsyp3k7enxv4jsxqzpu9qrsgquk0rl77nj30yxdy8j9vdx85fkpmdla2087ne0xh8nhedh8w27kyke0lp53ut353s06fv3qfegext0eh0ymjpf39tuven09sam30g4vgpfna3rj invalid | last character changed, the checksum fails |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Счёт Lightning Network (BOLT 11) |
Sources
- doc: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/11-payment-encoding.md
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/lightning_invoice - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/cryptocurrency/lightning_invoice.yamlon GitHub