[imaginenore]

Have they solved the distributed routing problem? I watched many videos on the LN, and it's never addressed, it's always this hand-wavy explanation that a route is somehow found, on a network that changes, potentially, thousands of times per seconds, and has tens of millions of nodes.

[hossbeast]

They are explicitly postponing the sophisticated routing solution until a later iteration, when we have more experience with how the network will become arranged.

It's not an omission, it was done this way on purpose.

[nosuchthing]

No. The LN white paper doesn't even explain how they plan to solve routing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8NH67_EfE&feature=youtu.be...

Without decentralized routing, It seems like they're simply prioritizing nodes with large sums of BTC as the central operator hubs.

Centralized payment processing hubs?

[dx034]

So like a Visa/Mastercard for Bitcoin? Probably not much to gain from that, I doubt it'll be more efficient than established networks (unless you want to deal in transactions that aren't allowed on those networks).