A lightning address lets you receive Satoshis (bitcoin) on a permanent, email-like address. But how do you generate a lightning address?
Here are the quickest ways to create your own lightning address, it only takes a few seconds.
Lightning Address on Wallet of Satoshi
Wallet of Satoshi is still the easiest Lightning wallet and of course supports the lightning address protocol.
Simply download WoS, and you get a lightning address right when you press ‘receive’.
Lightning Address on LifPay
LifPay is a relatively new lightning wallet and it lets you setup your own custom lightning address. Simply download and install LifPay on your mobile device and create your custom lightning address.
Lightning Address on Blink
Blink is a lightning wallet made for everyday use and of course supports lightning addresses. After you install the app and register you can set your username (lightning address) in the settings.
Lightning Address on Coinos
If you don’t have your mobile device near you or if you don’t have access to any of the above apps, then coinos is your friend. Simply go to the website coinos.io and create your account. The username you set will be your lightning address on coinos. For example: username@coinos.io.
More options to create a Lightning Address
If non of these options work for you, or if you are interested in more options such as integrations, browser wallets, enterprise solutions etc. then please head over to lightningaddress.com.
We hope this guide was of help and you can enjoy your new lightning address as much as we do.