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=== Invoices
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=== Invoices
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Every payment on the Lightning Network starts with a person who wants to receive bitcoins issuing an invoice.
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Every payment on the Lightning Network starts with a person who wants to receive bitcoins issuing an invoice.
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The main reason for this process is that it helps to make the payment process over a path of payement channels atomic.
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The main reason for this process is that it helps to make the payment process over a path of payment channels atomic.
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Atomic means that no node on the path can decide to take the money that is being routed and stop the routing process.
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Atomic means that no node on the path can decide to take the money that is being routed and stop the routing process.
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The payment will either be transferred successfully through the path of nodes or will not be delivered.
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The payment will either be transferred successfully through the path of nodes or will not be delivered.
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There are no such things as a partial payment or a half successful payment.
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There are no such things as a partial payment or a half successful payment.
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