I get that if you matched the amount you could guess what the origin was but the counterparty wouldn’t know where the funds came from, would they? From my understanding they only know they are the receiving node and the one prior to it.
And I would believe it to be very hard to match two similar amounts that happen roughly at the same time to eachother, wouldn’t it? I have no idea about chainanalytics tho… 😂
Careful out there Pleb - sounds like feds are in “make shit up mode” with chain analysis as the cover these days. So it probably wouldn’t really matter if you were being targeted, unfortunately.
This is worth a listen:
If you open a channel direct, yes. If not, there's some value in that abstraction. However, the timing analysis would still apply as someone somewhere opened and closed a channel and the closing balance might match the amount looped out. It's a nonzero improvement in privacy but far from perfect.
