🚨 My spook detector is 99% sure this isn't a normal Lightning node

https://void.cat/d/QDMPL742Fs6DTia18jzzFy.webp

 https://lqwdtech.com/


What do you think it is? Agency?


Surveillance co


What can be done to ostracize them ?


Proving?


the node is a honeypot


in midspeak: they are attempting to be involved with as many transactions as possible in order to attempt to track down the source and destination of payment paths


whoa!! they are everywhere

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A bit about LQWD
https://markets.ft.com/data/equities/tearsheet/profile?s=LQWD:CVE


Ah my. You should see how it looks stateside. Your average shadowy supercoder usually doesn’t qualify for the 5 billion dollar loan to start a new mining corporation.


Everything is good for Bitcoin


We will one day use web of trust to help us keep track of which nodes are spooks and which are not


They've been around Lightning+ site for a good while now participated in opening channels over there...

But otherwise don't hear much about them...  🤔


Met before...He got rich on bitcoin in his previous venture.  Didn't come off as spooktacular to me but what do I kno.


But ya he's surveillance as a service for sure, sold to highest bidder


Low IQ Watch Dogs


Looks like a monolithic LN channel starting service that has maxed on its hubness stats. Phoenix?


This would not surprise me at all.
Quick side story: I once chatted with (self proclaimed) FBI agent at a Bitcoin conference in Austin and they had quite a lot of questions to which I was "no comment".
I think they insert one into every community and give them list of questions to assess how "extremist" the community is...

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The Blockchain Intelligence Group (based here in Vancouver) used to boast on their website that the Canadian and American feds (RCMP and DHS, IIRC) were their customers, I don't see that on their front page now from a quick search...


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bleh, closed theirs opened chanell tnx


Lqwd is a chain anal.


Sad thing is, many of the smaller nodes are voluntarily giving their data to the state through amboss.space


This doesn't make sense as a heuristic to identify a surveillance company. This is the type of allocation that would optimize for payment routing count, but not payment volume.
Also, routing a payment is a really poor indicator of payment origin or destination if that's what you were after for an enforcement action.


I would like to see the ability to blacklist routing a payment through my node if it has come via such a node.


The outlier is channel count, not capacity. They open channels with 1-20ppm to everyone.


🚨 My spook detector is 99% sure this isn't a normal Lightning node

https://void.cat/d/QDMPL742Fs6DTia18jzzFy.webp

 https://lqwdtech.com/


Set max htlc to 0 on the lqwd channel or just close it.


Is there a way to blacklist a node from routing through for outgoing payments on LND or CLN?


I don't think so mainly because the routing node doesn't know the full path.  I know you can set ignoreNode in eclair and "exclude" in lightning-cli pay  but those are for building a route for your own payment.


Yes, that what I wanted to do


That's a lot of corn.


Yes, naturally if one has a channel open already (I don't) but what I mean is it would be great if we could refuse any routing if the route thus far had included that node. Effectively blacklisting them out of routability if enough people did it.  I don't think that's possible, though.


Yeah exactly, disregard my last note -- we'd have to add route awareness in order to do so and that is something these folks would *love* for us to do.


there are other services that pay you sats for having your routing informations (ie: mission control data for lnd nodes).

Whether they sell them to chain anal companies or to other nodes to steal your good routing paths we all should avoid sending them.


they kind of look legit - but then again i guess if you were NSA you would make it look legit... at least they are totally searchable on Google and they say what their mission is...


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