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. To that end, they use “Onion routing” — they construct a packet much like a prank christmas present from your older brother: a multitude of ever smaller boxes, until it is finally revealed that it’s just a pair of alpaca socks.