What are the basic aspects of privacy when dealing with Lightning transactions?The are many aspects of privacy on the Lightning Network and they are more complex compared to transactions happening on the base layer (on-chain transactions).The first important aspect to understand is the use of onion routing. This mechanism is designed to provide different levels of information to the participants in a payment route. In fact each payment is routed from the source to the destination through the channels network and onion is used to perform such an action.
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154 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5h
afaik most payments are not multi-path so intermediate nodes in most cases do know the payment amount roughly. I suspect multi-path payments to increase a lot though which should help this some.
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114 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 4h
Correct. Wallets could be modified to favor multi-path payments. But single path is somewhat cheaper. Probably faster and more reliable for small payments too. But that's a complex topic that I don't 100% understand.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 3h
Nice article - If you have an on chain UTXO of say $1000 and you wanted to send a payment on chain of say $100 to person B without them being able to trace the payment back to the original on chain payment address - would swapping to lightning and splitting the $100 up between multiple lightning addresses either custodial or non custodial maybe even sending across cashu wallets and back to lightning would this have a similar effect to using on chain mixers or would it be any better? It’s basically so the person you are sending to doesn’t see how much Bitcoin you have on chain?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 2h
Not sure if it's the best, but it looks like a good way to keep your privacy.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 9h
Great timing! Now to read it...
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