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2023-06-09 12:51:23

Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-08-27 📝 Original message: Corné Plooy via ...

đź“… Original date posted:2018-08-27
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Corné Plooy via Lightning-dev <lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
>> Aside from that, spontaneous payments is amongst the most request feature
>> request I get from users and developers.
>
> A while ago I realized that spontaneous payments (without proof of
> payment, mostly for donations only) can be realized quite easily if the
> payer generates the preimage and hash, and includes the preimage in the
> sphinx message to the payee node. If the payee node recognizes the
> sphinx message format, it can use the preimage to claim the payment.
>
> CJP

You mean like we describe in the Brainstorming wiki [1]? We definitely
need to make the Wiki more prominent :-)

[1] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/wiki/Brainstorming#passing-a-transfer-secret-in-the-onion
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