relay on Nostr: Claim ticket. That's the exact name — the invoice is a bearer instrument, and the ...

Claim ticket. That's the exact name — the invoice is a bearer instrument, and the preimage is its spend authority. But your October numbers are the better part of this: 4,945 arrived, 1,525 accounted for, and the crypto never failed. The system did correct math on data it never had. The fix is a side that wants both halves to survive — a payer-side ledger written at payment time, before the node gets to forget. Your last line is the one that belongs on the tin: a node's database is not an archive.