Electrum is the only lightning wallet for Linux desktop*, and one of the few for other desktop platforms. Unfortunately, the minimum lightning channel size you can make in Electrum costs around $200 USD. This is a real barrier to entry for many users. I've made a Github issue/PR about it, feedback from Electrum actual users would be appreciated. For reference, Zeus and other wallets based around LND use minimum channel sizes of around $20. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/10730 *There are other lightning wallets you can run but not as native desktop apps. They require knowledge of terminal, docker, and a bunch of other not normie friendly stuff.

I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but basically: A LNURL is basically just a web server running at somesite.com. To pay somebody with a lightning address, like [email protected], your wallets loads rizful.some/lightning/yourname. The web server (rizful) talks to your lightning node/wallet and gets an invoice which can be paid. But this requires running the web server in the first place. CLINK gets rid of that. Instead of having a web server, you essentially use a nostr relay as your web server.

I am proud to report that Electrum wallet now supports CLINK. Accept Lightning payments in your Electrum wallet via nostr. No port forwarding required. Electrum now joins @ wallet in having CLINK support. https://github.com/BareBits/electrum_clink/