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If you send (or receive) a Lightning payment that is greater than your send (or receive) limit of 1 channel, is/can that payment be split across multiple channels? And does this also count for all nodes in between? #asknostr
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LightningBuck 6mo ago 💬 5

Yes, it's called multi path payment

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Kurt 6mo ago

Do you have to set up something for that in your node, or does that happen automatically? Do you have a good article on that?

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LightningBuck 6mo ago

I don't know for sure, but I believe all modern node implementations will do that automatically for you. I don't have any articles on that, I remember Rene Pickhardt talking about it in a Podcast or on Twitter. But you seem to have found some stuff already.

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waxwing 6mo ago

See my other reply.

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Kurt 6mo ago

Ok, I found a few myself thanks to the designation “multi path payment”. I have been using Lightning for a while but am not fully on board with the tech yet. Thanks, I will definitely look into this further. ty

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waxwing 6mo ago 💬 2

No, multi path allows routing across different paths (so, different intermediate channels), but the sender uses only one channel. As far as I'm aware there is no way to use the capacity in multiple channels to effect a payment, atomically. You would have to make multiple payments.

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Matt Corallo 6mo ago 💬 1

No you can definitely send an MPP payment across multiple first-hop channels from the same node.

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waxwing 6mo ago

Oh, thanks for the correction!

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Kurt 6mo ago

Thank you very much nostr:npub18803czg9yhsjkcut498mrxr0n0q035qxrh7kknsuzh72h2n7gd3szp48lq nostr:npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdp nostr:npub1vadcfln4ugt2h9ruwsuwu5vu5am4xaka7pw6m7axy79aqyhp6u5q9knuu7

I find Lightning super interesting but I am not fully there yet, still a lot to learn and read. Glad I'm on Nostr for this though