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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @88b0c423eb 17h \ parent \ on: Phoenix 2.7.0 - Taproot channels! lightning
As long as I understand having public channels with taproot will make impossible to see if a tx was a normal oc tx or an tx to open a LN channel with is a privacy enhancement. If one has a public channel but whoever observers the timechain can't link the onchain tx to open such channel is a good thing.
It doesn't make sense. If you are a public node, anybody can see all your channels ID, channel point etc.
As I said: public nodes are for PUBLIC routing. If you want privacy run a private node.
Or use a public node as a decoy... but that imply to use too much your brains.
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It makes all the sense if you have a public node but nobody can link those sats moving there with the sats onchain used to open or close the channels.
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OMG you are lost in your own stupidity. You cannot make the difference between the words public and private?
How many times I have to explain it to you? You cannot have full privacy by default when you are in a public realm.
Why is so hard to run a damn private node?
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full privacy by default is not zero privacy, but you don't understand that. A node running on clearnet is not the same as node behind tor in terms of privacy.
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I still can run a private node on clearnet and you will have no idea about it.
Why?
Because is a damn private node.
A public node behind Tor is an oxymoron...
Read: #944885
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That's not the point and does not invalidate taproot tx to open and close public channels on LN to have indeed better privacy
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I'm not sure what you mean. IIUC, public taproot channels have other, better marketable, use cases than privacy.
A public channel is gossiped to the lightning network. The gossip information contains the channel identifier. While LND's way of showing this identifier is somewhat non-human-readable, other implementations show the short channel id, which explicitly points out the funding transaction on the block chain. As you can see on different LN-explorers, gossip data is logged, so inferring what TX is an LN channel funding one is child's play - regardless of transaction type.
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Of course one can see all that info from a public node but can't see how much liquidity is on each side of channels, but without taproot one can see the closure of those such channels and how much sats exactly goes to each side of two nodes of a channel. From what i understand with taproot that's not possible because closures of LN will be seen in the blockchain as any other onchain txs.