From jb55 at jb55.com  Wed Dec 15 21:59:49 2021
From: jb55 at jb55.com (William Casarin)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:59:49 -0800
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Split payments within one LN invoice
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Hey Ronan,

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 05:33:51PM +0000, Ronan McGovern wrote:
>Hi folks, I'm Ronan - based in Dublin and building Trelis.com (simple
>payment links to accept Lightning).
>
>I'm wondering if there is a way to create an invoice that splits the
>payment to two lightning addresses?
>
>If not, what would be required to develop this?
>* A protocol change?
>* Could it be built with the current protocol (I see an app on LN Bits to
>split but it doesn't seem to work).

This is typically done at the application level. The fountain podcasting
app works this way and it seems to work okish.