For the "pay from USD balance", do you have dollars already on Cash App or is it trying to pull from your bank account? If the latter it could be your bank declining the transaction. We have a fix coming soon to give more specific feedback on failure for dollar funded lightning payments, sorry it's unclear right now. Try adding cash to your cash app balance first then doing the payment, it should work then or tell you if the bank declined the cash in.

Hey @cointastical I work on lightning payments at Cash App. I just tried paying Blink.sv from Cash App and got the same "Sorry, ..." message.

I checked the logs and our lightning nodes can't find a payment path to the Blink.sv receiving node (https://mempool.space/lightning/node/029fc6217803748cc8fb6b041acbe81e6e295a914487dcea7e5d7e141b64883826). We have 10M sats in local capacity to the Blink routing node (https://mempool.space/lightning/node/02dfb4c1dd59216fa6a28d0f012e188516f63517db68c4e4b82c3af41343a05bc4), so we should be able to send payments there no problem. So I think the issue is that Blink is not managing the liquidity between their routing node and their receiving nodes. I would recommend reaching out to their support to flag this issue.

If you have any more issues with lightning payments on Cash App feel free to reach out to me on SN or nostr: npub1tw00dgmtr0afe398y354yk6vtf4k8nv264zlpx3s5l8kvjz40d7qrukly0

@jasonb I work at Square, if you share the payment hash it'd help us debug and prevent this in the future. Sorry this happened! You can DM me on nostr at npub1tw00dgmtr0afe398y354yk6vtf4k8nv264zlpx3s5l8kvjz40d7qrukly0 or respond here.

Strike has probably sent more lightning payments than any other entity on the network. I'm pretty sure they have a pretty good idea of how reliable/unreliable lightning payments are. Better than Rene's jupyter notebook simulations...