From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Fri Nov 16 00:15:28 2018
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:45:28 +1030
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Strawman BOLT11 static "offer" format using
	probes.
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ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com> writes:
>> I apologize that this wasn't fleshed out before the summit, but I
>> overestimated the power of Scriptless Scripts so had mentally deferred
>> this.
>
> My understanding is that SS *is* as powerful as we thought, at least for some of the applications we were hoping to use it for.
> However, implementing SS is hard without Schnorr, because script magic with `OP_CODESEPARATOR` is magic, and we essentially stalled out and said "maybe wait for Schnorr instead".

No, we don't get static invoices.  That was my hope; that we could do
static invoicing without an extra interaction.

Cheers,
Rusty.