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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ambosstech 26 Apr \ parent \ on: How private is the Lightning Network? lightning
No, if, as the destination of the payment, your node data gets seized, the channel you received a payment through is now known. To back-trace the payment, an investigator would need to contact the immediate prior hop. If they refuse an unwarranted search (likely case), the investigator would need to contact each of the prior hop's channels, say 30 channels.
Each lightning payment can reliably take 4 hops, so that's 13030*30 = 2700 people to interrogate if they refuse unwarranted search.
I see. It gets difficult quickly when the routing nodes are uncooperative but it's quite easy in case of a warranted search.
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