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Destination in WoS invoice is not WoS node

When I create an invoice in Wallet of Satoshi / Android, and lncli decodepayreq --pay_req=lnbc2 the invoice, there's a destination { "destination": "...
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bech32 serialized lightning invoice from lnd rest endpoint /v1/invoices

I am using the LND Rest API to create an invoice. As response I get something like {'r_hash': 'Wchr...E=', 'payment_request': 'lnbc210n1p....z9s', 'add_index': '4', 'payment_addr': 'Lyn...50=' } ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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