Hi Gavin, On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 06:44:08PM -0400, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I'd love to see somebody write up a higher-level description of what the > user experience is like, what communication happens underneath, and what > new pieces of infrastructure need to get built to make it all work.
I'm writing a (hopefully more accessible) summary on Lightning currently. It might not go into too much detail with infrastructure, but is a bit more UX focused. > A customer starts with eleven on-chain bitcoin. They want to pay for a nice > cup of tea. Walk me through what happens before/during/after the > transaction, assuming I have a lightning-enabled wallet on my iPhone and > the tea shop has a lightning-enabled cash register. > > Assume neither the customer nor the tea shop are technically sophisticated > -- assume the customer is using an SPV wallet and the tea shop is using a > service similar to Bitpay. It's a bit of a tangent, but I see it as necessary that all Lightning services/wallets support on-chain payments for a multitude of reasons, including usability and long-term security/fungibility. For that reason, the UX flow for payment after channels are established should not be significantly different than Payment Protocol based payment flows (with the only exception being a possible additional fee dialog box/alert when the fees will be higher than expected/on-chain). -- Joseph Poon _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
