Andy Schroder [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-08-30 📝 Original message: Hello, I'm looking ...

📅 Original date posted:2017-08-30
📝 Original message:
Hello,

I'm looking through BOLT 11. I don't really see an option for a refund
address like is present in BIP 70. Is this intentional? If so, why do
you not see that people would possibly want to receive a refund?

I'm trying to adapt my fuel pump
(http://andyschroder.com/BitcoinVendingDevices/) to use lightening and
it requires a refund address because their is a pre-payment required.
Change is then immediately returned at the end of the sale for any
unused credit. An alternative is for one's automobile to do real time
micro pre-payments, but I'm not sure that the latency of a lightening
payment will be low enough and the bandwidth requirement might be too
expensive. It would likely also require people's automobiles to measure
the product delivered and have an on board wallet. This would be ideal
long term, but I'm not sure if it is realistic at this time.

Also, assuming that a real time micropayment is doable at the automobile
level, what happens if one of your hops goes down in the middle of the
product delivery? Can there be automatic alternate/redundant fail over
routes like happens with IP traffic? It seems like this could be
difficult with onion routing.

With all that being said, even if real time micro payments can be a
reality, I still see many of other unrelated use cases where there may
be a refund desired. I think that's why they put a refund address option
in BIP 70.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

--
Andy Schroder


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