XMR > Layer 2

Acinq, Breez, Spark?

Pretty sure what bull wallet does with Liquid to lightning payment is private enough

What should we do then?

So Alice -> Big Brother -> Bob?

And most of the capacity sits on AWS or Google Cloud.

But what about on-chain to ln swaps and vice versa. Doesn't that give more privacy?

running a lightning node should be everyone's hobby.

I'm not the best with computers, but it wasn't all that difficult to setup StartOS on an extra PC I have. Took about 8 hours to sync knots and then an hour or two to figure out how to connect LND and ride the lightning. I think its worth doing.

Minibits, WoS, Boltz?

Isn't that what bcashers criticised 9 years ago aka hub and spoke like big regulated banks?

Normalize running your own Lightning channels

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Fucking A

Holy shit, that elephant is talking.

Yikes.

Wdym?

I hate the privacy implications, but Breez SDK was the most efficient way for me to get an LN wallet into my app. I hoped accessing it through TOR and regularly rotating keys would work. But they block TOR access. As soon as you have a legally accessible entity operating a service, privacy will be ...

I think this is 100% untrue. LSPs like Megalith do a huge amount of the routing activity. And there are dozens of small and independent players like Rizful. Also, since Lightning is private, nobody can really tell you where the traffic actually is…..

Complaining about Lightning centralization while also complaining about what they do. That's like complaining there's only one kitchen at the restaurant making food, while complaining about how they take the order, make the food, then bring it to the table. You're sawing off the branch you're st...

Yes. And that's enough to de-anonimize senders, even if they run their own LN node.