# Lightning Offline Payments ## Metadata **Status**:: #someday **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Created**:: [[2025-12-01]] ## Async Payments LSP holds payments for users. - [Async payments followups · Issue #4135 · lightningdevkit/rust-lightning](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/issues/4135) - [Async Payments on The Lightning Network | Voltage Blog](https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/how-async-payments-on-lightning-network-work) - [Lightning Self-Custody Works: Why Mobile Nodes Are the Future of Bitcoin](https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-self-custody-works)