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[Feature] Support Sats Names to make lighting address easier to recognize, easier to read, easier to remember

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Description

### Feature description

If you don't know what is Sats Names, you can read this doc:
https://docs.sats.id/sats-names/about
Sats Names is a standard for writing names to Bitcoin using ordinals. The goal is to build a name ecosystem for Bitcoin, that is built by Bitcoiners, and developed entirely on Bitcoin.

it can make lighting address easier to recognize, easier to read, easier to remember, and most important, it's decentralized.

- All namestate lives on Bitcoin
- The protocol will remain credibly neutral
- Names are inscribed as ordinals, and the only fees involved are paid to miners on the Bitcoin network.

FAQs: https://docs.sats.id/sats-names/faqs

**Why we need this?**
- easier to recognize, easier to read, easier to remember, and most important, it's decentralized
- It seems that some Lightning Network wallets are currently using email as an address scheme, but this solution is not decentralized, it's not neutral enough

### Describe the solution

I'm not an engineer, but perhaps you can discuss with the author of Sats how to implement this. https://twitter.com/satsnames

My idea is as follows:
for instance, an address that owns bitcoin.sats could mint an inscription declaring that the Lightning Network address/invoice corresponding to that bitcoin.sats is ****.
Afterwards, when transferring to this bitcoin.sats via the Lightning Network, one could send to the Lightning Network receiving address corresponding to this bitcoin.sats

### Describe alternatives

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### Additional context

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### Are you working on this?

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