rich1.0npub1zw7cc8z78v6s3grujfvcv3ckpvg6kr0w7nz9yzvwyglyg0qu5sjsqhkhpxhttps://nostr.ae/npub1zw7cc8z78v6s3grujfvcv3ckpvg6kr0w7nz9yzvwyglyg0qu5sjsqhkhpxnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2018-02-07 📝 Original message: Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu32 at gmail.com> writes: > Hi Y'all, > > A common question I've seen concerning Lightning is: "I have five $2 > channels, is it possible for me to *atomically* send $6 to fulfill a > payment?". The answer to this question is "yes", provided that the receiver This is awesome! I'm kicking myself for not proposing it :) Unfortunately, your proposal defines a way to make multipath donations, not multipath payments :( In other words, you've lost proof of payment, which IMHO is critical. Fortunately, this can be fairly trivially fixed when we go to scriptless scripts or other equivalent decorrelation mechanism, when I think this mechanism becomes extremely powerful. > - Potential fee savings for larger payments, contingent on there being a > super-linear component to routed fees. It's possible that with > modifications to the fee schedule, it's actually *cheaper* to send > payments over multiple flows rather than one giant flow. This is a stretch. I'd stick with the increased reliability/privacy arguments which are overwhelmingly compelling IMHO. If I have any important feedback on deeper reading (and after a sccond coffee), I'll send a separate email. Thanks! Rusty.