customer all the way through the network bouncing around and eventually getting to the the recipient which was the merchant so let's see how it actually happened is the way that Satoshi described because the very first version of Bitcoin included a feature called IP to IP which is the very definition of peer-to-peer it's appear with an IP address connecting to another peer with an IP address this is so subsequently been removed from Bitcoin that we are putting it back in so this is actually how a transaction is supposed to flow