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 Few understand 
 cause its horseshit.

LN isn't a privacy layer. 
 😂 then you don't understand LN and you believe the bullshit told by influencers who have never used it in their fucking life.

Ask yourself why in Germany kraken a banned Lightning, something I predicted months ago. 
 obviously you understand LN better than the folks at voltage 🙄

https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-network-privacy-explainer 
 I bet you a bitcoin if I make a payment to you and you find out who I am, in the same way if you make a payment to me you have to find out where that payment goes to the chain (here I will use something else besides lightning).

 @DarthCoin will be the treasurer, come on? 
 only if you send me back 2 BTC 😃  
 😂 
 how about you respond to the points voltage makes in the blog post? 
 sad.

you dont know shit about privacy if your attitude is
"it's private if a random person on the Internet can't find the destination"

clearly an Anonymous PFP doesnt make anyone a cypherpunk. 
 Cope harder. You couldn’t trace the payment and neither could anyone else. 

You can’t even explain how it would be done let alone do it. You don’t know shit about the LN. Maybe just don’t comment on shit your clueless on?

You’re just dug in cuz your Monero shitcoin is obsolete.  
 Bingo 🎯 
 Maybe I’m wrong to completely trust @Cyph3rp9nk but hey: I’m going with whatever you say to be true. 😂🫡🙏 
 I'm not asking you to tell me who I am, I'm just asking you to tell me from which node the payment comes from and to which address or chain the receiving payment ends up... 🙃 
 I’d rather just have my V for Vendetta party. 🎉 😂🤦🏻‍♀️😭😉

But FINE!!! If you must make me do it your way, we will see what happens.  
 Probably ok if you just wwant to avoid dragnet surveillance.

definitely NOT OK if you have a sophisticated threat model.

not that these guys care about the difference... smh 
 this isn't hard moron. its been an acknowledged issue for years.

here's Calle talking about it last year.
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/scaling-bitcoin-privacy 
 I’m not listening to a two hour podcast from some fag wearing a gator who does not give a fuck about privacy at all.

State in three sentences the attack vector or stfu. If you use lightning correctly it is superb privacy.  
 LOL

when you are losing, the "find out who I am on the internet" never fails 
 LOL

when you are losing, the "find out who I am on the internet" never fails nostr.fmt.wiz.biz 
 How you Monero boys are, I'm offering you 1 bitcoins if you track my payments but you don't want to and the culprit is me 😂. 
 I will give you le 21 million bitcoins if you find out my home address from my youtube channel !!! checkmate, google apps = privacy !!! 
 This can’t end with me competing against multiple Evey’s on who gets to launch you. Maybe 🤔 

Cause you’re coming out with all the fire 🔥 right now. What happened to peaceful revolution? If I can’t be president I think 🧐 

Got it … must think more & learn more. Damn it again. You’re always right. FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ 

https://media.tenor.com/xH8e_LlXP1wAAAAC/you-were-right-all-along-kyle-broflovski.gif
 
 lose the Guy Fawkes mask until you're older 
 ❤️ 
 personal opinion

if you think these are the criteria to make a system private,
you need to lose the Guy Fawkes mask.

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 Ima sit back & enjoy all the pixel popcorn 🍿 this brings. And yes 🙌, this is sexy as hell. 😂🫡🤦🏻‍♀️

https://media.tenor.com/eACbXnw3f-MAAAAC/yakutenok.gif
 
 Anonymity (identity) is different from privacy (actions and contents). Perhaps we won't know who you are right now, but we can clearly see balances and transactions on chain. We can also follow them going into the future (do you coinjoin before and after every single transaction? or do you trust every single person you transact with?). Even experts make mistakes.

It's not just about random anons like us either. Actors with more resource (governments, corporations, exchanges, and chainalysis) can do even more with it like inferring who you might be by using that data (amounts, addresses, timing, etc). The longer you use Bitcoin the more data you leave on chain and ever increasing chance of mistakes. 
 A few assumptions are made in some attacks in that analysis, such as “KYCed coins used to open channels.” Also, some of the suggested mitigations are already active in LN implementations. Of course people fuck up. In any case, it’s definitely more private than non-coinjoined on-chain transactions. 
 true true 👍

I'm all for improving BTC privacy and
as you say
its better than transparent on-chain txs.

but its also true that most mitigations are likely to be defeated as surveillance increases.
LN privacy is kinda like BTC in 2013. any "privacy" is mostly because nobody is looking.
ie, its not a battle-tested network yet.

and these "just use LN" morons are anti - intellectual and actively subverting people's privacy by saying there isn't a problem. 
 “most mitigations are likely to be defeated as surveillance increases”

Of course the same applies to coinjoined and Monero transactions, assuming no further improvements. 
 true
except CJs and Monero are more battle tested and already resilient. so barring extreme technical breakthroughs we have reasonable certainty they will continue to provide privacy.

which is NOT true of LN, where privacy guarantees are difficult to quantify, dependent on use-cases and poorly understood.

there isn't a whole hell of a lot anyone can do about a diffie-helman exchange ya know? its been around a while. 
 I’d say that CJ is part of LN privacy, as something that should always be done prior to using UTXOs for LN nodes. 
 Lightning has almost perfect privacy for the sender and now with bolt12 also for the recipient... 
 Não tenho conhecimento suficiente para comentar sobre LN. Coincidentemente esbarrei com outra thread tbm discutindo sobre privacidade..

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 Sim lightning é uma camada de escalabilidade (que não escala) nunca foi focada em privacidade os nodes sabem todas as transações o nostr:nprofile1qqstf23ul2dkecqp5p43adw6zm32wv4u82e6wwlz7jjk5k7dzzjdv4spyemhxue69uhkcmnkdak8g73wvdhk6tmwdaehgunjv4kxz7f0dc6rj6n6dfuhgcspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsr6quck pode explicar melhor. 
 Não é bem assim

A LN oferece privacidade total ao pagador mas quem sofre é o recebedor, se estudar a estrutura de htlcs entederá isso

Pagamentos diretos são super privados sim desde que não sejam anunciados

Canais privados melhoram a privacidade

LN tem blinded paths e já está implementado no LND pelo menos (não sei ao certo em outras implementações), o blinded paths garantem privacidade total pra pagador e recebedor

tem alguns trade offs sim mas não são relacionados a privacidade

A LN escala sim, o que não escala é onchain, arks resolvem isso e são interoperáveis com LN pra vc não precisar a ir a onchain

Quem sofre é o usuário de ln custodial, este é o mais ferrado com privacidade, mas ecash resolve isso

Cada vez mais no bitcoin novas ferramentas vem surgindo para melhorar privacidade, só que ao mesmo tempo é preciso saber usá-las pra atingir esse objetivo

Se não sabe o que está fazendo vai estudar antes como funciona, pois tentar fazer alguma limpeza de rastro pode ou não ter efeito ou até piorar 
 Não é bem assim

A LN oferece privacidade total ao pagador mas quem sofre é o recebedor, se estudar a estrutura de htlcs entederá isso

Pagamentos diretos são super privados sim desde que não sejam anunciados

Canais privados melhoram a privacidade

LN tem blinded paths e já está implementado no LND pelo menos (não sei ao certo em outras implementações), o blinded paths garantem privacidade total pra pagador e recebedor

tem alguns trade offs sim mas não são relacionados a privacidade

A LN escala sim, o que não escala é onchain, arks resolvem isso e são interoperáveis com LN pra vc não precisar a ir a onchain

Quem sofre é o usuário de ln custodial, este é o mais ferrado com privacidade, mas ecash resolve isso

Cada vez mais no bitcoin novas ferramentas vem surgindo para melhorar privacidade, só que ao mesmo tempo é preciso saber usá-las pra atingir esse objetivo

Se não sabe o que está fazendo vai estudar antes como funciona, pois tentar fazer alguma limpeza de rastro pode ou não ter efeito ou até piorar