Damus
Peter Todd · 8w
You can just open lightning channels with your funds. FixedFloat.io and flyp.me both support lightning. Anyway, these claims of "common wallet characteristics" are likely to be bullshit. Lots of peop...
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Yes the wallet fingerprinting stuff sounded kind of crap/BS. But if you asked them they'd just say "oh yes but our system is much more sophisticated than that; we can't tell you more because it's proprietary". And while *that* is BS, it's also true that the principle of multiplicative/compounding on fingerprinting is unreasonably powerful (see: browser fingerprinting etc.).

I strongly agree that LN is an exceptionally good tool for privacy despite its (imo heavily overblown) limitations. But my general comment was about the "move large amount through anon technique X" and that comment very much applies to LN too.

I guess your "Wasabi is a perfectly good wallet" was more aimed at the article than at my comment about it, but yeah, I agree that this is not evidence against Wasabi's utilty.

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Hanshan · 8w
isn't the problem with LN as a privacy tool that you would never know if it's privacy assurance was broken? not being an l1 it's not designed to function in the open and if a third party is accumulating information ( IE routing nodes are colluding ) you would never know. strong privacy assurance is...