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 Samourai but decentralized. Not sure how we get privacy on the base layer at this point 
 use lightning 😏 
 Wooof. So much to unpack there 
 You tell me to use LN, but when I try to zap you it doesn't work...

https://m.primal.net/KSkV.webp
 
 I just finished reading The Genesis Book and I’m more convinced than ever that Satoshi never intended for the base layer to offer privacy. Being transparent is what established trust and assurance of consensus in the first place. Privacy and speed of settlement with layers was always the solution. 
 Basically says as much in Section 10 of the white paper. Pseudonymisation was all that was promised.  
 Yep 
 That's quite bad advice. If you truly want to offer people advice, Monero should be what you're recommending. It is possible for lightning to be private. If you are extremely careful, but it is very easy still to hurt your privacy. 
 Have you tried joinmarket? 
 BTCPay Server's coinjoin plugin is this on steroids. Coordinator discovery is decentralized using Nostr: https://mempool.space/tx/f0117ea9c6aee4e2634390dc07792b087a5af5897fd59fd508aba3741a160dfe 
 Is this different from when they were using Wasabi? 
 Not trying to nitpick when the options are so few and far between but there’s anonymity lost when the transactions are all different amounts. Using nostr to coordinate peers is damn cool though