From ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com Tue May 9 09:01:02 2017 From: ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com (ZmnSCPxj) Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 05:01:02 -0400 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Spontaneous transfers In-Reply-To: <20170508114724.GB28181@nex> References: <20170508114724.GB28181@nex> Message-ID: Good morning Christian, >- Another option is that Alice can create a circular route, from >Alice sending `X+fees` to Bob and then `fees` back to herself, >i.e., masquerading the payment as an oversized fee that is >deposited at Bob. This way Alice can trigger the payment herself, >but we can't communicate the sender's identity to Bob. We may even >be able to build the game in such a way that the payout of the >winning amount is the second half of the route, if Alice wins at >all. > >I think the first option is probably the easiest and cleanest, and the >second one is more of a novelty, but it'd allow the creation of a >gambling service that does not know the identity of its players :-) I think this is a clever way of doing anonymous donations to controversial charities. Not even the receiver can leak information on who the donators are. Regards, ZmnSCPxj -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: