> Lightning itself can't natively split payments
I think it can. If the wallet knows it wants to pay 400 sats to Alice, 300 to Bob, and 500 to Carol, it can arrange a route that passes through each of their nodes, and drop pending fee htlcs off at each one, whose value corresponds to the amount desired for that node. The last node reveals the preimage and then everyone gets paid. That's an atomic split payment that lightning has native support for.
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2026-07-16 16:11:38 UTC
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