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Patrick Lemke 4 years ago
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@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ While Lightning could have been designed to share balance information of channel
Payments on the Lightning Network are forwarded along a path of channels from one participant to another one.
Thus a path of payment channels has to be selected.
If we knew the exact channel balances of every channel we would easily be able to compute one of the standard path finding algorithms taught in any computer science program to choose a path for the payment.
This could even be down in a way to optimize the fees that would have to be paid by the payer to the nodes that kindly forward the payment.
This could even be done in a way to optimize the fees that would have to be paid by the payer to the nodes that kindly forward the payment.
However as discussed the balance information of all channels is and cannot be available to all participants of the network.
Thus we need to have some path finding strategy.
This strategy relates closely to the routing algorithm hat is used.

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