Nostr + Lightning: Build Your Decentralized Identity and Lightning Address
- What Is Nostr?
- Why Lightning Changes the Experience
- Zaps Are More Than a Like
- NostrFeed: Combining Identity and Lightning
- Step 1 — Create Your NostrFeed Account
- Step 2 — Create Your Lightning Wallet
- Step 3 — Get Your Free Lightning Address
- Your Nostr Identity + Lightning Identity
- Step 4 — Want a More Professional Lightning Address?
- Step 5 — Choose Your Name
- Step 6 — Choose Your Domain
- Step 7 — Purchase the Premium Address
- Why Would Someone Pay for a Lightning Address?
- Nostr + Lightning + Web3
- The Bigger Vision
- From Social Profile to Internet Identity
- The Future: Don’t Just Follow People — Support Them
- Getting Started With NostrFeed
The internet gave us usernames, social profiles, messaging, and communities.
Bitcoin gave us something different: digital value that can move without borders.
Nostr brings these ideas closer together by providing an open protocol for identity and communication, while Lightning makes Bitcoin payments fast enough for everyday internet interactions.
Together, they create an interesting possibility:
A social identity that can communicate, receive value, and participate in an open network.
This is the idea behind NostrFeed.
What Is Nostr?
Nostr is an open protocol for decentralized communication.
Instead of creating your identity inside one company’s database, your identity is based on a cryptographic key pair.
Your public identity can be represented by an npub, while your private key is used to sign events.
Conceptually:
Your Nostr Identity
│
├── Profile
├── Notes
├── Replies
├── Follows
├── Communities
└── Applications
Your content is published to Nostr relays, and different clients can read those events.
That means your identity doesn’t have to belong to one application.
You can use the same Nostr identity across different Nostr clients.
Why Lightning Changes the Experience
Nostr handles identity and communication.
Bitcoin handles value.
Lightning makes Bitcoin practical for small, fast internet payments.
That gives us:
Nostr
↓
Identity + Social
+
Lightning
↓
Payments + Value
A person can publish a note and receive a Zap.
A creator can share a payment page.
A community can support a project.
A developer can receive contributions.
And eventually, applications can build commerce and other economic functionality directly around these primitives.
Zaps Are More Than a Like
Traditional social platforms have:
❤️ Like
🔁 Repost
💬 Comment
Nostr can add:
⚡ Zap
A Zap is a Lightning payment associated with a Nostr event.
That changes the meaning of engagement.
Instead of:
“I liked this.”
A user can say:
“I liked this enough to send value.”
That doesn’t mean Zaps are a perfect measure of content quality. But they introduce a completely new economic signal into social applications.
NostrFeed: Combining Identity and Lightning
The goal of NostrFeed is to make this experience simple.
Instead of forcing a new user to understand:
- Nostr keys
- relays
- Lightning wallets
- LNURL
- Lightning Address
- payment infrastructure
all at once, the platform should guide the user through the process.
The basic journey is:
Create Nostr Account
↓
Create Wallet
↓
Get Lightning Address
↓
Start Receiving Zaps
↓
Customize Your Identity
↓
Optional Premium Address
Step 1 — Create Your NostrFeed Account
Start by creating your account on:
Your account establishes your Nostr identity and gives you access to the NostrFeed experience.
Once your identity is ready, you can use it for:
- your profile
- notes
- following people
- receiving Zaps
- interacting with communities
- Lightning features
- creator tools
Your Nostr identity becomes the foundation for everything else.
Step 2 — Create Your Lightning Wallet
After creating your account, open the Wallet section.
This is where your Lightning functionality begins.
The wallet allows you to work with Lightning payments and receive sats.
Conceptually:
NostrFeed Account
│
▼
Wallet
│
▼
Lightning Address
│
▼
Receive Zaps
The Lightning infrastructure behind the platform is powered by GetZap/LNbits.
Step 3 — Get Your Free Lightning Address
Once your wallet is ready, NostrFeed can provide a free Lightning Address.
For example:
username@getzap.me
The idea is simple.
Instead of asking someone to generate an invoice manually every time, they can send Lightning to your address.
For creators, developers and Nostr users, this becomes part of their internet identity.
You can put it on:
- your Nostr profile
- social media
- websites
- GitHub
- email signatures
- creator pages
And because it is connected to your Lightning wallet, you can receive payments directly.
Your Nostr Identity + Lightning Identity
Now your profile becomes more interesting:
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ @username │
│ │
│ Nostr Identity │
│ npub1... │
│ │
│ ⚡ username@getzap.me │
│ │
│ [ Zap ] [ Follow ] │
└─────────────────────────────┘
You now have two important layers:
Nostr
Your decentralized social identity.
Lightning
Your payment identity.
Together:
Identity + communication + value.
Step 4 — Want a More Professional Lightning Address?
The free Lightning Address is designed to make Lightning accessible to everyone.
But some users may want something more memorable and professional.
For example:
kk@getzap.me
is useful.
But a creator or business may want:
hello@customdomain
or a premium NostrFeed/GetZap identity built around a memorable name.
That’s where the paid address system comes in.
Step 5 — Choose Your Name
If you want a premium Lightning identity, choose the name you want.
For example:
yourname
or:
brandname
The platform can check whether the name is available.
Choose your name
[ kaundal ]
✓ Available
Then choose the domain or address namespace.
Step 6 — Choose Your Domain
Premium users can select from available domains.
For example:
Name: kaundal
Domain: example.com
Result:
kaundal@example.com
The important part is that the user isn’t simply buying another wallet.
They’re creating a memorable payment identity.
That identity can be used across the internet.
Step 7 — Purchase the Premium Address
Once the name and domain are selected, the user can purchase the address for the selected subscription period.
The flow becomes:
Choose Name
↓
Choose Domain
↓
Check Availability
↓
Select Subscription
↓
Pay
↓
Address Activated
For example:
Premium Lightning Address — Annual
The exact pricing and domain availability can be determined by NostrFeed’s commercial plan.
Why Would Someone Pay for a Lightning Address?
The free address is enough for most users.
Premium addresses are for people who want:
Creators
creator@brand-domain
Developers
dev@brand-domain
Businesses
pay@company-domain
Communities
support@community-domain
Personal brands
name@premium-domain
A memorable payment identity is easier to share than a long invoice or wallet address.
Nostr + Lightning + Web3
This can eventually become much bigger than a Lightning Address.
Imagine your NostrFeed profile:
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ @username │
│ │
│ Nostr │
│ npub1xxxxxxxx │
│ │
│ ⚡ Lightning │
│ username@getzap.me │
│ │
│ ₿ Bitcoin │
│ bc1qxxxxxxxx │
│ │
│ Ξ Ethereum │
│ 0x1234... │
│ │
│ ◎ Solana │
│ ABCD... │
│ │
│ [ Follow ] [ Zap ] [ Pay ] │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
The user doesn’t need to think of these as separate identities.
NostrFeed can become the interface that connects them.
The Bigger Vision
The interesting part isn’t simply:
“NostrFeed has a wallet.”
The bigger idea is:
NOSTRFEED
│
┌────────────┼────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
Identity Social Value
│ │ │
Nostr Nostr Lightning
│ │ │
└────────────┼────────────┘
│
Web3
│
Bitcoin / EVM / Solana
Your identity can become more than a username.
It can become:
who you are + where you publish + how people support you + how you receive value.
From Social Profile to Internet Identity
Imagine a creator joining NostrFeed.
Day 1
They create:
@alice
Day 1
They create their free wallet:
alice@getzap.me
Day 7
They start receiving Zaps.
Day 30
They create:
Zap Goal
Day 60
They launch a digital product.
Day 90
They upgrade to a premium Lightning identity:
alice@herdomain
Now the same identity can represent:
Social
+
Creator
+
Payments
+
Community
+
Commerce
The Future: Don’t Just Follow People — Support Them
Traditional social platforms were designed around attention.
Nostr introduces portable identity.
Lightning introduces native digital value.
The combination creates a new possibility:
A social network where supporting someone can be as native as following them.
You can follow a developer.
Read their posts.
Zap their work.
Support their goal.
Buy their product.
Join their community.
And all of this can happen around an open identity.
Getting Started With NostrFeed
If you want to try the platform:
1. Create your account
Go to:
2. Open Wallet
Create your Lightning wallet.
3. Activate your free Lightning Address
Start receiving Lightning and Zaps.
4. Start using Nostr
Create your profile, follow people, publish notes and participate in the network.
5. Upgrade when you need a premium identity
Choose your preferred name and available domain, select a subscription, and create your premium Lightning Address.
⚡ Nostr + Lightning Is Still Early
The most interesting part is that we’re still very early.
Nostr gives developers an open social protocol.
Lightning gives developers programmable Bitcoin payments.
LNbits makes Lightning infrastructure easier to integrate.
And platforms like NostrFeed can build the user experience connecting all of these pieces.
The end goal isn’t another centralized social network.
It’s something closer to:
Your identity. Your content. Your wallet. Your value. Your network.
Built on open protocols.
Welcome to Nostr + Lightning. ⚡🟣🟠
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