📅 Original date posted:2023-07-13
🗒️ Summary of this message: The author suggests asking developers of Lightning Network node implementations to support self-payment of invoices, which is currently not possible but would be a valuable feature for custodial Lightning service providers.
📝 Original message:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 3:47 AM David A. Harding <dave at dtrt.org> wrote:
> My question is whether you think it would be worthwhile to ask
> developers of the underlying LN node implementations you use to support
> self-payment of their own invoices (if they don't already).
As far as I know no Lightning node has this ability, which is very unfortunate.
If possible this should definitely be implemented. It would be the
biggest feature for custodial Lightning service providers of all kinds
since always.
fiatjaf [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-07-15 18:58:04
in reply to nevent1q…zwzh
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