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Brace yourselves for enterprise-grade decentralized payments!

The entire lightning network is extremely decentralized from hobbyists to Fortune 500s.

LN micropayments are possible universally (impossible for trad payments) while enterprises can instantly settle >$100k.

This simulation uses crowdsourced and randomized data to show how decentralized and performant the lightning is for users from hobbyists to enterprises.

Slices of the top network nodes are based on network nodes public capacity.

To create this max flow report, sources and destinations are selected randomly to perform exhaustive multipath payments.

The resulting performance for the entire network is an extremely conservative metric to motivate highly decentralized and efficient payments.

Learn more about Max Flow and why it's important here:

https://amboss.tech/blog/the-metric-that-matters

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nostrdamus 10mo ago

Less than 80% overall success rate for $100 is not that great. Or am I missing something?

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Amboss 10mo ago

You might be missing something.

What's being evaluated here is the ability to pay from *anywhere* in the decentralized network to *anywhere else* in a $100 amount.

Using a transportation network analogy, you can drive a car on 80% of transportation paths on average, but some are too narrow like bike paths and alleyways and some already have too many cars on them.