Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
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The Probability of It Fitting
In order for the entire payment to be successful, it has to be successful at every channel. The more channels that are involved, the more likely it is that one of those will not have the capacity that you thought it would have. So this is kind of like, obviously, non optimal. That is something that I observed. And we could actually provide a formula and saying, look, if the payment has a certain size, you want to start splitting the payment. But we already knew from looking at the graph, it doesn't make sense to split the payment in equal size junks.
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