This article first appeared on my medium page on 2017-06-29. I was pondering whether it is a good use of my time to respond a second time to Jonald Fyookball. Since the new article mostly repackages the same misunderstandings, I have decided to only provide some subsidiary information. Who performs the Routing in Lightning Network? When a node in Lightning Network wants to initiate a payment the sender picks every hop of the route.