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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @_bilthon_ OP 14 Jul \ parent \ on: boltproof — check if a Lightning payment really happened, right in your browser bitcoin devs

This can also happen to exchanges with closed source software we have no ways to inspect or any hope to fix. So to address your points:

1- Bugs in software will always exist, and lightning is a complex beast.
2- Part of the motivation here is to teach folks that they can prove/verify a lightning payment. Maybe I should add a better "about" section explaining that.
3- A regular user who doesn't run a node has no way of checking. Some wallets do give out pre-image, but there's hardly any public resource allowing users to verify.

I can't go around fixing every single wallet my trade peers use, so a better use of my time was to put this together and have them use to verify my claim and also forward the same claim to their wallet/exchange support.

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2 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14 Jul
Part of the motivation here is to teach folks that they can prove/verify a lightning payment. Maybe I should add a better "about" section explaining that.

The education is the part that's useful imho. The use case otherwise feels a bit hypothetical.

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @_bilthon_ OP 14 Jul

Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I add it. But as someone that uses P2P trading quite a bit, let me assure you the use case is pretty real. It's not the first time I've ran into this issue with trading partners and it's pretty annoying to have to explain things. I'm scratching my own itch here.

Also I don't intend to cast shade to any wallet out there, like I said lightning is hard, lots of moving parts.

I'm actually surprised I couldn't find something like this out there. Most decent wallets do show a preimage as a payment proof. But then users have nowhere to go to easily and quickly perform a cross check as they'd do with an on-chain transaction.

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