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!
- Go to the HRF Website
- Move the slider to your preferred donation amount.
- Use the "Donate" button.
- Choose "Lightning" as a payment method
- Use the "Copy" button to copy the invoice text to your clipboard
- 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]
- The payment should send, and if you return to the invoice page, you should see a confirmation like this:
