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Did you know it’s possible to use it to send arbitrary data along with a LN payment?, Thread by @JohnCantrell97 on Thread Reader App

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> This means your payment has to have a lot of this random data to be able to support enough hops to navigate the entire network.  
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> It also means that you can use this space to embed additional data in the payment that the recipient can access.

> This means your payment has to have a lot of this random data to be able to support enough hops to navigate the entire network.
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> It also means that you can use this space to embed additional data in the payment that the recipient can access. 
> This is how apps like Sphinx and Zion are able to implement messaging over the lightning network.