Author: Lloyd Fournier 2021-04-18 05:05:50
Published on: 2021-04-18T05:05:50+00:00
The email conversation between two individuals, Lee and LL, discusses the privacy challenges associated with lightning. LL provides insights into identifying the node that funded a lightning channel and determining the owner of the channel close output, which depends on whether private channels are used exclusively or not. If both private and public channels are funded using the same wallet, it may be possible to identify the owner of the private channels and its outputs. LL suggests a solution to turn lightning into an effective layer-1 privacy tool in the "Removing cross-layer links" problem on bitcoin-problems.github.io. The context also includes links to relevant resources to support the discussion.
Updated on: 2023-06-03T03:54:50.103231+00:00