what is the source for this data?
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This is data that we provide from Lightning Network "Gossip" - BOLT 7
and how did you aggregate it?
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what databases? 🤨
Can you clarify the question? There's too many ways to answer that.
Every LND node has a database that is bbolt, but we use internal databases as well that are more optimized like Postgres and several graph-specific databases for certain calculations.
thanks 🙏
sorry, im not knowledgeable enough to know what the LN gossip tells you.
do you have insight into the network at large?
specifically for this metric
assuming its an simple aggregate of your own nodes and counts of how frequently amounts of different sizes are sent and fail?
or is there more data available to you?
what about mpp? wouldnt that skew the data towards smaller payments?
thanks for any information you can share 😀
maybe still too broad?
I'm learning about LN and more interested in the data available and the methods used to analyze it than the specifics of the databases.
Ah, no worries!
Gossip describes the information contained in the Lightning Spec "BOLT" 7. You can see the information exchanged here, per spec: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/07-routing-gossip.md
The gossip messages contain node and channel information as well as updates to them. Individual payment information is not shared with gossip, only the existence of payment channel through which payments can be made.
The animated graphic of max flow is the result of a complex simulation of payments from random sources and destinations to generate an average of the network performance. Payments are assumed to take multiple paths and exhaust all available liquidity.
You can learn more about Max Flow and why it matters on our blog: https://amboss.tech/blog/the-metric-that-matters