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@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ A major challenge for the participants of the Lightning Network is that the topo
For example the capacity of the payment channels is shared on the gossip protocol via the `channel_announcement` message.
However this information is not as useful as the actual distribution of the capacity into a local balance between the two channel partners.
This is obvious as a node can only forward the amount of bitcoin via a particular payment channel that it actually owns within that channel.
While Lightning could have been designed to share balance information of channels and a precise topology this has not been down for two reasons:
While Lightning could have been designed to share balance information of channels and a precise topology this has not been done for two reasons:
1. To protect the privacy of the users and not shout out every financial transaction and payment that is being conducted.
2. To be able to scale the amount of payments that can be conducted with the Lightning Network. Remember the Lightning Network was created in the first place because notifying every participant about every payment does not scale well. Thus for simple technical reasons the Lightning Network cannot be designed in a way that the current balance updates of channels are being shared among participants.
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