
Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
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A Smaller Payment Has a Higher Chance to Go Through, Right?
A smaller payment has a higher chance to go through, which intuitively is very clear. So you basically compute a probability for every channel in the network and assume how likely is it that I can send this amount in this direction. This is a multi-decade project. The slight delay. Slight delay, yes. But if you look into the literature, they all describe the phenomenon.
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