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To the Lightning engineers: has anyone ever thought about crowd sourcing a payment? I'm specifically thinking, what if Alice has a secret that is valuable to the general populace of users; but any one person finds it too expensive. Say 100 people all "chip in": they pay to the secret with 1/100 of the amount. When Alice claims one she claims all if the preimage is the same across all. Does this make sense practically? It's easier to reason about directly onchain since the concept of "publishing" the secret is more unambiguous there. And with routing there can be failures which makes it messier, right.

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Gigi · 6d
You seem to be describing what I would call a "crowdwall" Let's say I have a movie and I will release it once I've got a million sats. But I don't care who pays for it. One large donor, or two people, or ten. As long as it's a million sats or more it will be released.
RamenCoffee · 6d
wait can this be used to run prediction markets off the lightning network ?
nick · 6d
I'm not sure but perhaps multi path payments forms the primitive for this? https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/multipath-payments/