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 Not really with lightning. When a lightning payments is routed, it goes from Originator, through any number of routing nodes, and finally to the recipient. Each node in the chain only knows of the nodes on either side of them. They know who routed them a pmt and who they then routed it on to, but they have no idea who the originator nor the final recipient are. As such, lightning is inherently private. If it's private then it can't be specifically identified as tainted.