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| > :book: ***What is an invoice | ||||
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| Almost all payments made on the Lightning Network require an invoice, which is nothing more than a request for payment made by the recipient of the money and sent by different means to the user who will pay.  The format for a Lightning invoice uses bech32 encoding, which is already used for Bitcoin Segregated Witness and all payment requests are single use. | ||||
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| Invoices have two parts: | ||||
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| - Human readable part: `ln` + (`lnbc` for Bitcoin mainnet, `lntb` for Bitcoin testnet, and `lnbcrt` for Bitcoin regtest) + data amount | ||||
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| - Data part : UNIX Timestamp + tagged parts include a payment hash, the pubkey of the payee node, an optional description of the payment, an expiration time, and some extra routing information. | ||||
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| Conside this ln invoice `lntb1m1p03ft7lpp5zve4dsgwgdxekqqq39vhgcnv6gfa2g2ktqy9lf0aph60d0388xmqdqqcqzpgsp545a9fphd8m5ayplcu8m5845cr4m0zcnyxddwv4g3zm32yprkfd4q9qy9qsq3s4y6cmyvh0qw9qm0sf80llxyyjy9xwrjds7lpkqhzv247jsm6q5me8t9e6ftquma664gz5u4a2rvs0yf4f0mlwtwfs6as5uj5djzhcqpnqlcj | ||||
| `  Starts with Prefix ln+tb+1m that indicates milli, so you should multi by 0.001.    | ||||
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| ### Understanding your invoice | ||||
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|    "signature": "30450221008c2a4d636465de07141b7c1277ffe621244299c39361ef86c0b898aafa50de8102204de4eb2e7495839beeb5540a9caf543641e44d52fdfdcb7261aec29c951b215f" | ||||
| } | ||||
| ``` | ||||
| ### Check your balance | ||||
| 
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| ``` | ||||
| c$ lightning-cli --network=testnet listfunds | ||||
| { | ||||
|    "outputs": [ | ||||
|       { | ||||
|          "txid": "9843c037f54a4660b297a9f2454e11d26d8659f084a284a5740bb15cb1d97aa6", | ||||
|          "output": 0, | ||||
|          "value": 19238, | ||||
|          "amount_msat": "19238000msat", | ||||
|          "scriptpubkey": "0014aa572371f29310cd677d039cdcd054156c1a9545", | ||||
|          "address": "tb1q4ftjxu0jjvgv6emaqwwde5z5z4kp49299gmdpd", | ||||
|          "status": "confirmed", | ||||
|          "blockheight": 1780768, | ||||
|          "reserved": false | ||||
|       } | ||||
|    ], | ||||
|    "channels": [ | ||||
|       { | ||||
|          "peer_id": "0302d48972ba7eef8b40696102ad114090fd4c146e381f18c7932a2a1d73566f84", | ||||
|          "connected": true, | ||||
|          "state": "CHANNELD_AWAITING_LOCKIN", | ||||
|          "channel_sat": 280000, | ||||
|          "our_amount_msat": "280000000msat", | ||||
|          "channel_total_sat": 280000, | ||||
|          "amount_msat": "280000000msat", | ||||
|          "funding_txid": "9843c037f54a4660b297a9f2454e11d26d8659f084a284a5740bb15cb1d97aa6", | ||||
|          "funding_output": 1 | ||||
|       } | ||||
|    ] | ||||
| } | ||||
| ``` | ||||
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| 
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| ### Paying your invoice | ||||
| 
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| ``` | ||||
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