From corne at bitonic.nl Thu Mar 8 15:19:56 2018 From: corne at bitonic.nl (=?UTF-8?Q?Corn=c3=a9_Plooy?=) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:19:56 +0100 Subject: [Lightning-dev] A protocol for requesting invoices Message-ID: <dd7a7398-f8e8-2a81-45a7-e52e55b88571@bitonic.nl> Hi, I was thinking of how to use Lightning for various types of payments, and I think it's currently fine for customer/(web)shop type interactions, but it seems a bit inconvenient for other use cases, e.g. salary payments or direct pay-out of cryptocurrency bought on an exchange. I came up with an idea that addresses some of these issues and more (e.g. payee anonymity) by having a direct line of communication between payer and payee instead of BOLT11-style interaction. It's still a bit half-baked, with many details not worked out yet, but you can read it here, and see if you like where this is going: https://github.com/bitonic-cjp/lightning-rfc/blob/payment-protocol/12-payment-protocol.md In true permissionless fashion, I have been so bolD to register bolT #12 for my idea. Please let me know what you think. kind regards, CJP