Hello all,
I feel that one of the biggest promises of lightning lies in it being used
for everyday retail payments.
I'd like to see a system that's:
1) instantaneous like the contactless bank cards of today
2) encodes a fancy HTML receipt in bolt11 for the payers future reference
QR codes are a
Good morning Igor,
This is quite an interesting use-case for Lightning.
However it seems to me that the payer will need a direct channel to the payee,
or at least the payment terminal (of the payee...?).
In addition the payer will need to somehow get blockchain information from the
payee if
If there are censorship concerns, you could opt for a set-up where payer
has an authenticated connection to a trusted server, through the
Internet connection provided by payee. The trusted server can, for
instance, be a full Lightning node running at the payer's home.
The payer then only has to
Good morning Alejandro,
There is no assumption involved, merely a large number of questions.
In a retaliation construction, if a party misbehaves, the other party gets the
entire amount they are working on together, as disincentive for any party to
cheat.
That works for the two-party case A
Good morning Corne,
My understanding, of the setup of Igor, is that, there is a Lightning-protocol
connection between the mobile device and the base station/payment terminal
device.
Initiating a payment to anyone on the network requires that you have direct
communication with whoever you have
