📅 Original date posted:2023-07-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: The author suggests that implementing self-payment of invoices in Lightning node implementations would be beneficial for testing and custodial service providers.
📝 Original message:
Hi folks,
I would also like to point out this can help testing a lot. I do
integration testing of payment flow by spawning a secondary node, setting
up a channel etc which takes considerable time even automated on regtest.
Also it sometimes fails for silly unrelated reasons.
Dňa so 15. 7. 2023, 20:22 fiatjaf <fiatjaf at gmail.com> napísal(a):
> 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.
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2023-07-17 13:04:44
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