Pierre <[email protected]> writes: >> But there's no reason to believe that the invoicer has more knowledge about >> all but the last hop. > > I disagree: there is a good chance that the receiver is a 24/7 running > merchant/website, with a full up-to-date view of the network, whereas > the payer is most likely a mobile wallet with less > accurate/partial/out of date information. > > At least this is what we are seeing on the current mainnet. Routing > table sync is hard on mobile clients, and I think that it makes sense > that receivers "help" senders, after all incentives are aligned.
Good qualification; I agree. Certainly if the payer knows its information is less reliable it should prefer the provided route. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
