There is a known privacy issue in the #lightningNetwork, where an attacker can gain crucial insights about the recipient in a BOLT 11 invoice!
Check out lipa's Invoice Detective service to learn how much can be inferred just by examining a BOLT 11 invoice and leveraging some knowledge of the lightning network graph.
Invoice Detective can identify whether the payee is a user of a non-custodial wallet, custodial exchange, or something else.
The good news is that blinded paths and trampoline routing might improve receiver privacy a lot.
With this "detective" you are just giving more "tools" to bad guys... Stop being an asshole and providing tools for bad guys.
blinded paths and trampoline routing
it is a long way to achieve that. people nowadays are really dumb and blinded (sic) by ecash "privacy offer". I really wish to see more trampoline nodes, but sadly, people are not interested into that.
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The bad guys know how to build this tools anyway. (Its not too hard) Its good to show how easy it is and make people aware of this issue.
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 31 May
Excellent. Thank you for that tool. It's good to know the privacy limits of the current setup so people can work on improving things going forward.
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Cool. Another lightning tool. Similar to: https://lightningdecoder.com/ https://lndecode.com/
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Thank you for sharing 🙏♥️
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