I’m in Madeira right now and payments from Primal (ie Strike) almost never complete in 5 seconds. Maybe 1 in 10 so far.
Lighting absolutely does not take 5-10 seconds to settle a payment. Looking at payments from one of the largest custodial providers settlements are *way* faster than that most of the time.
Sure, if you’re sending from a shitty node that doesn’t have good pathfinding[1] then it can take a bunch of retries and a while, but, like, don’t do that? Cashu could take 5 seconds if you hit bad Tor relays, but, again, like, don’t do that 🤷♂️.
[1] https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/ldk-pathfinding/ nostr:note1ga0k4pvr97klk8er8c4ca3qux94lj6rc766gf8zjsaf5mheqy8zshwe9ln
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These payments are in-person to a merchant pos. Don’t know what pos they are using.
You should tell Strike this. That’s really embarrassingly slow!
I make Lightning transactions literally every day and it's always been like that. Once in a blue moon they succeed < 5s. It happens, but it's definitely not the norm.
And we need to add the zap part (getting invoice via http, sender publishing zap request, receiver publishing zap receipt on nostr).
> I make Lightning transactions literally every day and it's always been like that. Once in a blue moon they succeed < 5s. It happens, but it's definitely not the norm.
Right, my point is you should complain to your lightning wallet because that’s embarrassing! We have the tech to fix this, it’s deployed in many places.
> And we need to add the zap part (getting invoice via http, sender publishing zap request, receiver publishing zap receipt on nostr).
Sure, but that’s one additional round trip to an HTTP server (max 200ms).