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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: | ||||
| An invoice is made up of two parts,  one is human readable and other is  | ||||
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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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