Questions tagged [sphinx]

There was recently a WIP draft published to the lnd Github, for a 'Sphinx payment mode' for Lightning Network nodes. To quote Roasbeef from the Github PR: [this allows] the ability to send a payment to a destination without first needing to have…

It is useful to send some additional information with a payment in LN. For example, spontaneous payments in LND send a payment_preimage to the destination of a payment. LND uses a non-trivial EOB format to try and encode this information into the…