Pierre [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: đ Original date posted:2018-10-08 đ Original message: > But there's no reason ...
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Original date posted:2018-10-08
đ Original message:
> 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accurate/partial/out of date information.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.
Cheers,
Pierre
đ Original message:
> 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accurate/partial/out of date information.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.
Cheers,
Pierre