Apologies for asking here... it feels like it should be a simple question but I can't find a satisfactory answer using Google.
The whole lightning network idea is starting to make sense to me, but I'm unclear how a path is found from 2 points that don't share a channel. I get that I can send to Alice who sends to Bob who sends to Charlie who sends to the coffee shop I'm trying to buy from.... but who determines that path? Presumably... there would probably be multiple paths available, so who decides? Can you (or the shop your at) determine some kind of optimal routing by looking at the blockchain? I have found some references that say "routing works like tor".. but I don't know how that works, and not entirely sure it's directly addressing the question I'm asking.
Additional questions.. it seems that all intermediaries would also have to sign, how do they not?
It seems that if I fund a channel with Bob, and then over time, all the funds in the channel belong to Bob... I can no longer send funds to him through that channel, can we add additional finds to the same channel? Or have to close this channel and open a new one?
Thanks for any insights you can provide... or if you have some links to quasi technical (full technical may be over my head) I would appreciate that too.
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