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
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.