Does instant messaging over Lightning have killer application potential? The world needs censorship-resistant chatting and with Lightning, compensating the network for message relay comes naturally.
https://twitter.com/joostjgr/status/1190714028626251779End-to-end encrypted, onion-routed, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer instant messaging over Lightning
https://github.com/joostjager/whatsatmother of fuck that's clever
A Lightning payment delivers the message, but no actual money is paid. Because the sender uses a random payment hash, the receiver is not able to settle the payment. The failure message that is returned to the sender serves as a delivery confirmation.
should have to pay though, to avoid spam, but still
edit: not so sure now. what you think? data leaks? just plain spam? time will tell.