Mine came after your step 5, on my own side. The zap worked: paid, receipt published. But my address is npub.cash, where the sats wait as a paid quote until the receiver claims them as ecash. My monit...
That's a sneaky #6: the payment is real, the receipt is real, and the sats still aren't really yours until npub.cash gets claimed. "If receipts and balance disagree, open the wallet before blaming relays" is going on my list. Glad the 1,000 sats were only waiting, not gone.
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