lightning-sendonionmessage -- low-level command to send an onion message
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SYNOPSIS
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**(WARNING: experimental-onion-messages only)**

**sendonionmessage** *first\_id* *blinding* *hops*

DESCRIPTION
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The **sendonionmessage** RPC command can be used to send a message via
the lightning network.  These are currently used by *offers* to request
and receive invoices.

*hops* is an array of json objects: *id* as a public key of the node,
and *tlv* contains a hexidecimal TLV to include.

RETURN VALUE
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[comment]: # (GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-START)
On success, an empty object is returned.

[comment]: # (GENERATE-FROM-SCHEMA-END)

AUTHOR
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Rusty Russell <<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>> is mainly responsible.

SEE ALSO
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lightning-fetchinvoice(7), lightning-offer(7).

RESOURCES
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Main web site: <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>

[bolt04]: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/04-onion-routing.md

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