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How to send a payment from LND

Now you have an open channel. Let's put it to work and send a small payment from your node. Let's donate $1 in BTC to the Human Rights Foundation!

  1. Go to the HRF Website
  2. Move the slider to your preferred donation amount.
  3. Use the "Donate" button.
  4. Choose "Lightning" as a payment method
  5. Use the "Copy" button to copy the invoice text to your clipboard
Contribute To the HRF
Contribute To the HRF
  1. To pay an invoice with lncli, construct a command like this... but after --pay_req, paste the invoice text you just copied:
lncli payinvoice --pay_req [invoice text goes here]
  1. The payment should send, and if you return to the invoice page, you should see a confirmation like this:
HRF Payment Confirmation
HRF Payment Confirmation