Lightning Detective

Investigate a payment instruction (BOLT-11 invoice, BOLT-12 offer, etc.)

The payment instruction is a BOLT-11 Invoice ^[doc]

🔎 Investigative Findings

Non-custodial Spark-based wallet

🗃️ Evidences

Pay to private node 030936e7a016fb3f5ce53c8db29da2b6dfbf8e068ea058c363e0fd77f444270d8a

via public node ed528ad49bedd1f7a638a

via public node e960fd8385a1603003727

📋 Details

Network	Bitcoin
Amount	123 sats
Description
Created at	2025-11-01 22:32:45 UTC
Expiry time	30 days expired
Payment hash	`feda1f21590e6c52950655d85156a17437c6a411a622c5361df8941f62b61459`
Payment secret	`339fc7157e8e6da37ed1e2ba466c5666b4832a4fab2b293532c12a4d2b4aa358`
Payee pubkey	`030936e7a016fb3f5ce53c8db29da2b6dfbf8e068ea058c363e0fd77f444270d8a`
Payment metadata	empty
Minimum final CLTV expiry	40 blocks (≈ 6 hours, 40 mins)
Route #0	Source node id: `02a98e8c590a1b5602049d6b21d8f4c8861970aa310762f42eae1b2be88372e924` Short channel id: `924810439616` Fee: base 0 sats, proportional 0.1% CTLV expiry delta: 40 blocks (≈ 6 hours, 40 mins) HTLC size: any
Route #1	Source node id: `039174f846626c6053ba80f5443d0db33da384f1dde135bf7080ba1eec465019c3` Short channel id: `924810439616` Fee: base 0 sats, proportional 0.1% CTLV expiry delta: 40 blocks (≈ 6 hours, 40 mins) HTLC size: any
Features	`004202` VariableLengthOnion supported PaymentSecret required BasicMPP supported PaymentMetadata not supported Trampoline not supported

Examples

Sample payment instructions; paste one into the form to see how parsing works.

On-Chain Addresses

Taproot bc1p5d7rjq7g6rdk2yhzks9smlaqtedr4dekq08ge8ztwac72sfr9rusxg3297
P2WPKH bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq
P2SH 3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy
P2PKH 1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2

Liquid

LNURLs

BIP-21 payment URIs

BOLT-353 DNS Payment Instructions

BOLT-12 offers

From different wallets

Twelve cash lno1pgg8getnw3q8…
Phoenix lno1zrxq8pjw7qjl…

Test vector

Scenarios sourced from the spec test vector.

Minimal bolt12 offer lno1zcss9mk8y3wk…
with description (but no amount) lno1pgx9getnwss8…
for testnet lno1qgsyxjtl6luz…
for bitcoin (redundant) lno1qgsxlc5vp2m0…
for bitcoin or liquidv1 lno1qfqpge38tqmz…
with metadata lno1qsgqqqqqqqqq…
with amount lno1pqpzwyq2p32x…
with currency lno1qcp4256ypqpz…
with expiry lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with issuer lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with quantity lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with unlimited (or unknown) quantity lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with single quantity (weird but valid) lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with feature lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with blinded path via Bob (0x424242...), blinding 020202... lno1pgx9getnwss8…
same, with blinded path first_node_id using sciddir lno1pgx9getnwss8…
with no issuer_id and blinded path via Bob (0x424242...), blinding 020202... lno1pgx9getnwss8…
... and with second blinded path via 1x2x3 (direction 1), blinding 020202... lno1pgx9getnwss8…
unknown odd field lno1pgx9getnwss8…
unknown odd experimental field lno1pgx9getnwss8…

BOLT-11 invoices

Non-custodial consumer wallets

Aqua lnbc100u1pj6ljjx…
Aqua with Boltz magic routing hint lnbc10u1p5nqmyjpp5u…
Bitkit lnbc1pjmzpxkdqqn…
Blixt lnbc210n1pjmzp9v…
Breez lnbc50n1pj62uuqp…
lipa lnbc120n1pjcxr98…
Mutiny lnbc5m1pj6tgnhsp…
Phoenix lnbc1pjmqfldpp5s…
Spark lnbc1230n1p5sdz5…

Custodial consumer wallets

Business wallets

lipa for Business LNBC1140N1PJ64FV…

Exchanges

Kraken lnbc10u1pj6jthgp…

Example from the spec

Scenarios sourced from examples section of the spec.

Please make a donation of any amount using payment_hash 0001020304050607080900010203040506070809000102030405060708090102 to me @03e7156ae33b0a208d0744199163177e909e80176e55d97a2f221ede0f934dd9ad lnbc1pvjluezsp5z…
Please send $3 for a cup of coffee to the same peer, within one minute lnbc2500u1pvjlue…
Please send 0.0025 BTC for a cup of nonsense (ナンセンス 1杯) to the same peer, within one minute lnbc2500u1pvjlue…
Now send $24 for an entire list of things (hashed) lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
The same, on testnet, with a fallback address mk2QpYatsKicvFVuTAQLBryyccRXMUaGHP lntb20m1pvjluezs…
On mainnet, with fallback address 1RustyRX2oai4EYYDpQGWvEL62BBGqN9T with extra routing info to go via nodes 029e03a901b85534ff1e92c43c74431f7ce72046060fcf7a95c37e148f78c77255 then 039e03a901b85534ff1e92c43c74431f7ce72046060fcf7a95c37e148f78c77255 lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
On mainnet, with fallback (P2SH) address 3EktnHQD7RiAE6uzMj2ZifT9YgRrkSgzQX lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
On mainnet, with fallback (P2WPKH) address bc1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t4 lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
On mainnet, with fallback (P2WSH) address bc1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3qccfmv3 lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
On mainnet, with fallback (P2TR) address bc1pptdvg0d2nj99568qn6ssdy4cygnwuxgw2ukmnwgwz7jpqjz2kszse2s3lm lnbc20m1pvjluezs…
Please send 0.00967878534 BTC for a list of items within one week, amount in pico-BTC lnbc9678785340p1…
Please send $30 for coffee beans to the same peer, which supports features 8, 14 and 99, using secret 0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 lnbc25m1pvjluezp…
Same, but all upper case LNBC25M1PVJLUEZP…
Same, but including fields which must be ignored lnbc25m1pvjluezp…
Please send 0.01 BTC with payment metadata 0x01fafaf0 lnbc10m1pvjluezp…