Practical scenarios of creating and settling invoices

Now that you have your Lightning wallet funded, you can start creating or settling invoices on Lightning Network.

To make a payment, you will need to open a channel. For that, you need to know your partner’s channel public key and their IP address. Since you’re working in a testnet environment, we’ve made available some channel addresses of popular products supporting payments on Lightning Network.

Bitrefill

Y’alls

Eclair

How does it feel to be able to pay for a cup of coffee for a little less than a dollar, spending less than a cent transaction fee and still getting your transaction confirmed at lightning speed?

Starblocks demonstrates this as it allows you to buy virtual coffee instantly with Bitcoin.

Let’s add the Expresso Coin Panna, which costs 0.0015 mBTC, to our cart and checkout.

It immediately generates an invoice. You can either copy the invoice info manually and paste it in your lightning app you set up earlier, or you just select the option OPEN WITH YOUR WALLET.

And make the payment from our Lightning Wallet (on desktop) or Eclair testnet wallet (on mobile)