As a side note: it would be very interesting to investigate further the impact of zero base fees on this *splintered payments* concept. That's clearly not about privacy, but about the computational time needed to solve near-optimally the pathfinding problem by minimising the fees.

tolot

Good one, so an HTLC cannot be "splintered" but multiple HTLCs can go through the same path independently.
I wasn't aware of that lightningprivacy.com website, thanks for the reference


bitcoin

Multi-path payments in Lightning - question

I call this 'splintered payments' but it is currently not possible: https://lightningprivacy.com/en/routing-analysis

You can send multiple MPPs down the same/similar paths but you can't make them split and/or come back together at any point. 