From decker.christian at gmail.com  Mon Aug 27 13:19:16 2018
From: decker.christian at gmail.com (Christian Decker)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:19:16 +0200
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Including a Protocol for splicing to BOLT
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Corn? Plooy via Lightning-dev <lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
>> Aside from that, spontaneous payments is amongst the most request feature
>> request I get from users and developers.
>
> A while ago I realized that spontaneous payments (without proof of
> payment, mostly for donations only) can be realized quite easily if the
> payer generates the preimage and hash, and includes the preimage in the
> sphinx message to the payee node. If the payee node recognizes the
> sphinx message format, it can use the preimage to claim the payment.
>
> CJP

You mean like we describe in the Brainstorming wiki [1]? We definitely
need to make the Wiki more prominent :-)

[1] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/wiki/Brainstorming#passing-a-transfer-secret-in-the-onion