Re: [Lightning-dev] Every node must be aware of all other nodes - scalability problem?

2017-12-15 Thread Christian Decker
Welcome to the mailing list Oliver :-) > It seems to me by reading BOLT #7 that every node in the lightning network > must be aware of every other. That is necessary to choose a complete route > to send a transaction for example. Yes, Bolt 7 is a purposefully simplistic gossiping protocol that

[Lightning-dev] Every node must be aware of all other nodes - scalability problem?

2017-12-14 Thread Oliver Mattos
It seems to me by reading BOLT #7 that every node in the lightning network must be aware of every other. That is necessary to choose a complete route to send a transaction for example. If the lightning network grows large, one could imagine multiple network nodes per person, so say 7e10 nodes.