Greetings. What was the rationale for not including channel capacity into the channel_announcement message?
As things stand now, the only way to determine it is to check the blockchain, which is hard for mobile and/or light wallets. Even worse, the data is only there in the form of short_channel_id, which is incompatible with most block explorer APIs. In other words, having to have access to the blockchain turns a route-finding tool from a simple program into a thing laden with many dependencies in order to fetch and parse the transactions. Not knowing the capacity of the channels drops routing success rates dramatically, especially for larger payments. Is there a good reason to force us to do so that i'm missing? -Artem
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