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What's the purpose of the payment_secret in a LN invoice?

In the tagged fields of the BOLT 11, it is stated: This 256-bit secret prevents forwarding nodes from probing the payment recipient. When referring to the tagged field identified by the s key. Can someone ELI5 what's the intended use of this…
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What are the differences between the design of BOLT11 and BOLT12?

What are the differences between BOLT11 and BOLT12? Should I be using BOLT11 as of today (November 2022) even I like some of the features of BOLT12? Relevant resources are bolt12.org, this tweet thread from LN_Capital and this presentation from Elle…
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How to generate a lightning invoice of any type offline

Is it possible to generate a lightning network invoice without the encumbrance of a full lightning node (lightning node defined as: fully synced channel graph, knowledge of channel outpoints, and current channel state)? How about bolt11, bolt12, amp…