[Lightning-dev] Spontaneous transfers

ZmnSCPxj ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com
Tue May 9 09:01:02 UTC 2017


Good morning Christian,

>- Another option is that Alice can create a circular route, from
>Alice sending `X+fees` to Bob and then `fees` back to herself,
>i.e., masquerading the payment as an oversized fee that is
>deposited at Bob. This way Alice can trigger the payment herself,
>but we can't communicate the sender's identity to Bob. We may even
>be able to build the game in such a way that the payout of the
>winning amount is the second half of the route, if Alice wins at
>all.
>
>I think the first option is probably the easiest and cleanest, and the
>second one is more of a novelty, but it'd allow the creation of a
>gambling service that does not know the identity of its players :-)

I think this is a clever way of doing anonymous donations to controversial charities. Not even the receiver can leak information on who the donators are.

Regards,
ZmnSCPxj
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