Yes 🙌 And if you’re the middle hop of that route, or one of several hops in the middle, you can even choose to charge me a small % of the total amount I want forwarded as a way of compensating you for helping me get my payment to the final recipient. That’s where fees on lightning payments come into play.
The purpose becomes clearer when other people open channels too. So if I also had a tab nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 now if you wanted to pay me you could go through him instead of having to open a channel through me directly.
So if you want to be me 5 sats you’d debit 5 sats from your “tab” and corn would “forward” that and debit 5 from his tab with me. He’d have the 5 you sent and I would have the 5 he sent me so corn would be whole (no change in how much is on his side).
Now how we keep corn honest (and not keep the 5 sats for himself) goes into more complicated “fairness protocol”.
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Also, if there are other hops/forwards in between, those extra nodes only see the nodes directly adjacent to them in the sequence. Aka they even don’t know it was a payment from tanel to wolfbear
(this is true right 🤣)
Yes true 😂 Nodes along the route only know which node they received it from and which they sent it to.
Lighting tutorial team effort! Only on nostr. (I’m afraid some dork would have told me why I’m a moron on “another app”)
