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# Payments Flow

The SPV Wallet uses Paymail capabilities to publicly reveal their ability to interpret SPV transaction data.

{% hint style="info" %}
**What is Paymail?**

It's a service discovery mechanism for counterparty web APIs. It allows users to pay something which looks like an email address, but under the hood resolves a specific endpoint for a wallet to use for payment negotiation.\
\ <mark style="color:yellow;">**<user@domain.tld>**</mark> -> *<mark style="color:blue;"><https://domain.tld/api/some/specific/endpoint></mark>*
{% endhint %}

### Sequence Diagram

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### Capability Specifications

Further details on exactly how these requests and responses should be formulate are defined in these BRC documents:

{% embed url="<https://bsv.brc.dev/payments/0028>" %}
Getting Outputs to Pay To
{% endembed %}

{% embed url="<https://bsv.brc.dev/payments/0070>" %}
The Paymail Capability for Delivering SPV Transactions
{% endembed %}


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