Path-finding - Fixed typo (#335)

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Imran 4 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The standard path finding mechanism with source based onion routing that is impl
3. Send out the onion and see if the payment settles by nodes sending back preimages or if the payment fails.
4. If the payment fails use this knowledge to select a different path by starting at step 1.
This means that with every attampted payment nodes actually probe the network and will also learn some information about how balances are distributed.
This means that with every attempted payment nodes actually probe the network and will also learn some information about how balances are distributed.
Implementations will usually prioritice cheaper paths or exclude channels which recently have failed.
In that sense the selection is not completely arbitrary.
Still even with such heuristics in place it could still be considered as a random process or random walk through the channel graph.

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