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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 17 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: What's the safest way to prove that you paid an LN invoice? bitcoin

Watch Onion Routing with HTLCs on the Lightning Network explained!

TLDR: no, those nodes in the path are only "forwarders", they don't know too much or nothing.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 17 Dec 2022

(The intermediate nodes all see the pre-image but cannot know the exact destination node (unless the next-to-last node knows the last node is a dead end with only one channel)).