it occurred to me afterward that I would actually get *more* info from analyzing a monero transaction *if* -- like him -- I was the sender sender -- the sender of a monero payment obviously knows who the sender is recipient -- the sender of a monero transaction also knows which of the recipient's addresses got the money, whereas in LN, the channel that received the money is hidden from the sender amount -- the sender of a monero transaction obviously knows what amount he sent fee -- the sender of a monero transaction obviously knows what fee he paid So I was wrong before when I said Kevin learned more from analyzing his own LN transaction than I would learn by analyzing a monero transaction that I myself made. He actually learned less.

More privacy is always a good thing (as long as we can get, and not break anything)

If you nuke your node the txns are also gone forever, whereas if your Monero pubkey leaks you can always recover the txns

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