fix(lightning): stop orphaning LNbits wallets and advertising dead Lightning Addresses

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Reported issue

@vianerds_scoutworkshop shows Lightning Address vianerds_scoutworkshop@ugig.net, the built-in wallet makes deposit invoices fine, but GET /.well-known/lnurlp/vianerds_scoutworkshop returned 404 No Lightning Address for ....

That user is already fixed in production (data repair, no deploy needed — the route reads LNbits live). The endpoint now returns a payRequest and the callback mints invoices. This PR fixes the cause and the other affected users.

Root cause

/.well-known/lnurlp/<username> deliberately resolves through the user's own LNbits wallet and returns its first lnurlp link. If that wallet has no link, the address 404s even though the profile advertises it. Two bugs put wallets in that state:

1. createUserLnWallet always created a brand-new LNbits wallet. Both call sites (/api/auth/confirmed, /api/auth/agent-register) can fire more than once, and the upsert on user_ln_wallets (onConflict: user_id) then overwrote the stored credentials — orphaning the first wallet together with its pay link and any balance on it.
2. The 409 from the second run was treated as success. Pay links claim a globally-unique LNbits username; on the second run that name is already held by the just-orphaned link, so LNbits returns 409 Username already taken. The old code matched errText.includes("already") and set ln_address anyway — so the profile advertised an address with nothing behind it.

Verified directly against production LNbits: the reporter's wallet had zero links, and WLemKE (holding vianerds_scoutworkshop, domain: ugig.net) is owned by no wallet in our DB — i.e. an orphan.

Scale

Scanned all 687 wallets in user_ln_wallets against LNbits:

• 369 wallets had zero pay links. Every wallet row has a live profile (wallets_without_profile = 0), so that is 369 users whose advertised @ugig.net address 404s — 368 after the reporter was repaired.
• In a 40-user sample of those, 22 had their username held by an orphaned link owned by no wallet of ours, matching the mechanism above.

A dry run of the rewritten script over all 687 wallets independently confirms broken=368, failed=0.

No money is misrouted by this: ugig's route 404s rather than resolving to the wrong wallet. But funds sent by anything resolving via ln.coinpayportal.com directly would land in an orphan.

Second bug found while backfilling: mixed-case usernames

/.well-known/lnurlp/<username> matched profiles with .eq('username', username.toLowerCase()) — a case-sensitive comparison against a column that stores the original case. So any mixed-case username 404s with Unknown user in both case forms, including its own, regardless of whether its wallet has a pay link. 211 of 687 wallet holders have a mixed-case username and all 211 advertise an address.

src/app/.well-known/lnurlp/[username]/route.ts now matches case-insensitively. ilike is only a prefilter (wildcards escaped); the strict lowercase comparison in JS is what decides the match, so an over-broad pattern can never resolve to the wrong person. Three usernames differ only by case (AgentHansaHelper/agenthansahelper, AidenLy/aidenly, Vault9000/vault9000) — in each pair exactly one profile has a wallet, so preferring the exact-case match and then the wallet holder disambiguates all three.

These 211 users stay broken until this PR is deployed — the backfill gives them a pay link, but the lookup still has to find them.

Changes

src/lib/lightning/create-wallet.ts

• Reuse an existing user_ln_wallets row instead of minting a second wallet (stops the orphaning at the root).
• ensurePayLink: return early if the wallet already has a link (idempotent); claim the LNbits username when free and fall back to a plain link when it is not — the link id is all the address needs.
• Only set ln_address when a link genuinely exists.
• disposable: false, so the address stays reusable.

scripts/fix-missing-paylinks.ts — was unusable: keyed off the obsolete -ugig@ address form (no row matches it today, so it would "fix" every wallet) and wrote a wrong @coinpayportal.com address. Rewritten to detect wallets with no pay link, default to a dry run (--apply to write), and back off on LNbits 429s.

Backfill

Not run yet — 368 users. After merge:

npx tsx scripts/fix-missing-paylinks.ts          # dry run, lists affected
npx tsx scripts/fix-missing-paylinks.ts --apply  # create the missing links

Each link is created on the user's own wallet, so payments land with the right person.

Verification

• npx tsc --noEmit clean; eslint clean on both files.
• End-to-end against production: /.well-known/lnurlp/vianerds_scoutworkshop → 200 payRequest; callback returned a valid lnbc... invoice on 5 of 6 attempts (one transient LNbits 520 node blip, unrelated).
• Pre-commit hook skipped: its pnpm install step fails with ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS in a fresh worktree regardless of this change.

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46 finding(s)

HIGH/CRITICAL: 2 | MEDIUM: 25 | LOW: 19

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