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BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications)
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When paying a Bolt 12 invoice, the payer may use a trampoline node to relay that payment. If the recipient doesn't support trampoline, the payer simply includes some of the blinded paths in the onion payload for the trampoline node, who will relay to those blinded paths. The trampoline node doesn't learn anything about the final recipient, it only learns the blinded paths they use, which should protect their privacy (unless using empty blinded paths). If the recipient supports trampoline and the `invoice_request` contains the trampoline feature bit, the recipient may set it in its invoice. In that case, the sender can use every node in the blinded path as a trampoline node and include the encrypted blinded path data in the trampoline onion. This also provides the opportunity for the sender to include additional TLVs for the recipient. |
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| 00-introduction.md | ||
| 01-messaging.md | ||
| 02-peer-protocol.md | ||
| 03-transactions.md | ||
| 04-onion-routing.md | ||
| 05-onchain.md | ||
| 07-routing-gossip.md | ||
| 08-transport.md | ||
| 09-features.md | ||
| 10-dns-bootstrap.md | ||
| 11-payment-encoding.md | ||
| 12-offer-encoding.md | ||
| CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
| README.md | ||
Lightning Network In-Progress Specifications
The specifications are currently a work-in-progress and currently being drafted.
Pull requests and comments welcome, seeking input from community stakeholders.
Discussion available on the lightning-dev mailing list.
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