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 When you make a payment on lightning from your own node, there is no public record of it, and no way for the receiver to see the sender node.

This is way more private than a public chain with a ring signature  
 Even if using Alby? 
 Now add Blind paths in the mix 🥳 
 ? 
 It’s a privacy technique built on lightning to obscure the receivers/sender identity 
 Asking for a friend. How would they do it. Any guide for them ? 
 If they can connect their node to @ZEUS the app can do it for them 
 Okay thanks. What about Alby? 
 Honestly I have no clue, I don’t use Alby that much 🙈 
 Hmmm they’ll figure it out. 

Thanks 
 evil people in between logging payment hashes could be an issue, but we will fix this with ptlcs 
 Interesting  
 LN is accidently also the best privacy solution for block chains  
 There's of course nothing accidental about it, as LN has privacy built into its design. But also because scaling and privacy often happily coincide:  Writing less to the chain gives eavesdroppers less to work with. 
 Very true. That is, if you did the prepwork to have proper capacity in your channels. I have two, but couldn't zap a sat if I wanted to, because my node is too broke :p
Still ultra mixed on Lightning. Great capabilities, but still feels like an invite-only club o.o 
 Ingwie- do an install of albyhub on your node. That make it very easy and works well remotely.  
 I will look at it, but my experience with C-Lightning (CLN) plugins is super spotty. x) Some of the plugins I use have seen their last update...a while ago. Some more than others.

# for s in c-lightning-REST cln-nostr-wallet-connect cln-zapper-rs clnurl; pushd $s; echo (pwd); git log -1 --format=%cd; popd; end
/opt/c-lightning-REST
Sat Oct 7 12:53:18 2023 -0700
/opt/cln-nostr-wallet-connect
Fri Jul 12 12:21:59 2024 +0100
/opt/cln-zapper-rs
Tue Aug 22 00:02:08 2023 +0100
/opt/clnurl
Mon Aug 19 13:53:54 2024 +0200 
 If Alice and Bob have only a single channel opened between them, when the channel closes, are all of the back and forth transactions commited to the block chain, or just the final balance?