Route Blinding was merged!github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/765
6179 sats \ 10 comments \ @Rsync25 28 Mar 2023 bitcoin
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4365 sats \ 4 replies \ @niftynei 28 Mar 2023
this is soo exciting! some background for people who want to know what this means for them:
  • what is it? route blinding makes it so that the person whos' receiving the payment can hide which node id is theirs. this is a big deal, right now an invoice contains all the info about what node is getting paid, how much and for what. route blinding takes the "to who" out of this, but still lets you receive sats
  • how can i use it? route blinding will be rolling out with bolt12s; it's a pre-requisite for the new invoices; it's not available for bolt11s (and there's no current plans to)
  • who has it? CLN + Eclair both implemented it and have it interop'ing; iiuc Carla at Chaincode has it working on LND in a branch + the LDK project is furiously working on adding it
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @benthecarman 29 Mar 2023
doesnt bolt 12 give you bolt 11 invoices so it'd have to have them just only through bolt 12 or am i wrong?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @moneyball 3 Apr 2023
bolt 12 gives you bolt 12 invoices
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 29 Mar 2023
Waiting for Godot bolt12
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rsync25 OP 28 Mar 2023
Wow! That's blowing my mind niftynei! Thank you so much for the explanation! I'm very fan of your job you're doing with CLN. I hope see his Bolt in more Lightning implementations :)
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624 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 28 Mar 2023
Route blinding and musig2 in one week, whats up with the devs they're getting after it
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @takaponka 28 Mar 2023
Amazing, privacy is coming finally. Most important flaw of LN before any other evolutions for me
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 29 Mar 2023
is LN ready for darknet markets now? or would it still be too risky for that kind of commerce.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @1fatmess 28 Mar 2023
Nice. Wen LND
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 28 Mar 2023
Devs keep deving good this week!
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