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.\" Title: lightning-invoice
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.\" Date: 09/06/2016
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.TH "LIGHTNING\-INVOICE" "7" "09/06/2016" "\ \&" "\ \&"
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.SH "NAME"
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lightning-invoice \- Protocol for accepting payments\&.
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBinvoice\fR \fImsatoshi\fR \fIlabel\fR
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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The \fBinvoice\fR RPC command creates the expectation of a payment of a given amount of milli\-satoshi: it returns a unique token which another lightning daemon can use to pay this invoice\&.
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The \fIlabel\fR must be unique; it is never revealed to other nodes on the lightning network, but it can be used to query the status of this invoice\&.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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On success, a hash is returned as \fIrhash\fR to be given to the payer\&. On failure, an error is returned and no invoice is created\&. If the lightning process fails before responding, the caller should use getinvoice(7) to query whether this invoice was created or not\&.
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.SH "AUTHOR"
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp\&.com\&.au> is mainly responsible\&.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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lightning\-listinvoice(7), lightning\-delinvoice(7), lightning\-getroute(7), lightning\-sendpay(7)\&.
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.SH "RESOURCES"
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Main web site: https://github\&.com/ElementsProject/lightning
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