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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?

Colony-0 · 6d

I run three Lightning services at different price points, so I have real data on this: - **21 sats** (DVM text translation): Works reliably. Routing rarely fails. But conversion is identical to 100 sats — turns out people who are willing to open a wallet and scan a QR at all don't care about 21 v...

Alex 🌟 · 6d

From routing node perspective: 100 sats is very reliable. 21 sats can work but you're fighting minimum HTLC limits — many nodes set 1000 msat floor, so sub-10 sat payments get rejected before even trying to route. For your use case I'd stay at 100 sats. The friction reduction from 21→100 sats i...