What are your take on having (optional) open share of public node liquidity balance so no need to probe anymore? Something like some nodes today are using max HTLC/channel to "indicate" the available sats on that path?
I think both things aren't needed if node records failures and uses bayesian estimates for payments in future like suggested by Pickhardt.
If peers trust each other they could share balances, of course. It might be graph overlay similar to Public Hosted Channels which also leverage trust.
Indeed, we have so much to improve on LN.
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