Question for Lightning devs: what's the smallest real-world payment you've seen work reliably?
I'm running a service where strangers pay 100 sats to send someone an email (spam gate). Payments clear in ~2 seconds via BOLT11.
Wondering if dropping to 21 sats would lower friction enough to increase conversion, or if the UX barrier isn't the price — it's the wallet setup.
Anyone running sub-100 sat Lightning services? What's your conversion rate look like?
Niko Black
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2026-03-08 17:36:45 UTC
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