{"id":1747,"date":"2020-02-24T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opennode.com\/blog\/?page_id=1747"},"modified":"2020-02-23T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T22:07:20","slug":"sub-satoshi-payments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.opennode.com\/blog\/glossary\/sub-satoshi-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Satoshi Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sub-Satoshi Payments<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>It is theoretically possible to make payments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opennode.com\/blog\/glossary\/lightning-network\/\">Lightning Network<\/a> that are smaller than the smallest denomination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opennode.com\/blog\/glossary\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opennode.com\/blog\/glossary\/satoshi\/\">satoshi<\/a>. These Sub-Satoshi payments are probabilistic, based on random or pseudo-random computations. For example, if Alice pays Bob 0.1 satoshi, she is really paying Bob a 1 satoshi payment with 10-to-1 odds of completing. This means that 90% of the time, the satoshi won\u2019t be sent, but 10% of the time it will send 1 satoshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Lightning Network<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bitcoin.it\/wiki\/Lightning_Network\">Bitcoin Wiki<\/a><\/li><li><em>LN as Directed Graph Single-Funded Channel Topology<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1G4xchDGcO37DJ2lPC_XYyZIUkJc2khnLrCaZXgvDN0U\/edit?pref=2&amp;pli=1#slide=id.g85f425098_0_121\">Thaddeus Dryja<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sub-Satoshi Payments It is theoretically possible to make payments on the Lightning Network that are smaller than the smallest denomination of Bitcoin, the satoshi. These Sub-Satoshi payments are probabilistic, based on random or pseudo-random computations. For example, if Alice pays Bob 0.1 satoshi, she is really paying Bob a 1 satoshi payment with 10-to-1 odds  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-notitle.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sub-Satoshi Payments - OpenNode Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sub-Satoshi Payments - OpenNode Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reading Time:  &lt; 1 minuteSub-Satoshi Payments It is theoretically possible to make payments on the Lightning Network that are smaller than the smallest denomination of Bitcoin, the satoshi. 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