running your own lightning node is a must for privacy. it largely replaces the need to coinjoin given the multitude of swap providers available.
add on blinded paths and you are basically free
The thing is though
Until something has been battle tested and has been around for five to ten years *in an adversarial environment,*
we don't really know if it's a good privacy tool or not.
Bitcoin was the same way, it was "private" for a while.
But it was private because nobody was looking. Lightning is in the same condition right now.
It looks good on paper and I'm hopeful. But It's difficult to manage and we honestly don't know at this point if it's going to work out long-term or not. I certainly don't consider it a drop-in replacement for known and tested solutions for transactional privacy.
So I coinjoin, move through LN and use Monero as much as possible.
Until something has been battle tested and has been around for five to ten years *in an adversarial environment,*
we don't really know if it's a good privacy tool or not.
Bitcoin was the same way, it was "private" for a while.
But it was private because nobody was looking. Lightning is in the same condition right now.
It looks good on paper and I'm hopeful. But It's difficult to manage and we honestly don't know at this point if it's going to work out long-term or not. I certainly don't consider it a drop-in replacement for known and tested solutions for transactional privacy.
So I coinjoin, move through LN and use Monero as much as possible.