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Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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How Do We Actually Want to Split Payments?

I can basically solve the shortest path problem the same way how nodes currently do this. Currently nodes try to optimize for the total fees that they pay. But what I said is, hey, we could optimize for the likelihood, right? So you find the path that is actually the most likely path. Taking all those probabilities into consideration. And then I guess you extrapolate this observation to to multiple channels. Yeah.

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