Eugene via Lightning-dev <[email protected]>
writes:

> Hello, list,
>
> I haven't closely following the Lightning Network's state of affairs since 
> late 2018 and I wondering, is it possible to support the following use-case 
> with LN:
>
> 1. A user subscribes to the service by opening a channel with it
> 2. User sets his LN node to "trust" invoices that come from said service
> 3. On subscription renewal, service sends an invoice to the client's LN node
> 4. Since the client's node is "trusting" service's node, it pays invoice 
> straight away
>
> User, of course, may cancel the subscription at any time by removing 
> service's LN node public key from the list of "trusted". Or the user can set 
> a limit on the amount and the frequency of payments that would be accepted 
> from the trusted node.
>
> For that matter, the questions are:
>
> 1. Is it possible to send invoices just by LN means? (Should we use TLVs?)
> 2. Is it possible to enable automatic machine-to-machine payments? As in the 
> example above, by accepting invoices from "trusted" nodes.

Offers[0] should support these use cases

Cheers,
Will

[0] 
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-November/002276.html


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