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I want to congratulate @npub1yn84...xgfl for finding an LN transaction and posting it Let's see info he learned: - sender? Himself -- assuming he sent from a self-custodial wallet, he even knows the address or channel of the sender, wow! - recipient? He knows the recipient's communication pubkey, node, and node name -- though not learn the address or channel that received the money - Amount? 69 sats - Fee? less than 1 sat That's a lot of info! More than I'd get from analyzing a monero transaction. Reading this back, it sounds sarcastic; it's not, I am being genuine: this really is more info than I'd get from analyzing a monero transaction, and it motivates me to work on making LN better. Thanks Kevin!
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Super Testnet 11 months ago
After thinking about it, the sender of a monero actually *would* know that information, except the node identifiers. A monero transaction knows which pubkey is the "real" spender -- their own pubkey is the real spender -- and they know the recipient's address, because the spender derived it from the recipient's public key. They also know what amount they sent and what fee they paid. So the only "extra" information he got from the LN transaction was info about the recipient's node's name and ip address. And if I had used my own node (which has no public channels) he wouldn't have even gotten *that* info. The privacy on LN really is very good if you don't use a custodian.