13.4k sats \ 1 reply \ @alex_lewin 5 Feb \ on: [10k bounty] Keysends. What are they? Risks and tradeoffs? lightning
A "keysend" is a special kind of payment in lightning that lets you send a payment without an invoice.
Normally, a receiver must generate a bolt11 invoice prior to receiving a payment.
Keysend payments allow senders to "spontaneously" pay over lightning (to a receiver's identity pubkey) without an invoice.
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