Zap to get you started. What improvements do you think can be made? I think routing happens locally and channels are private by default, but everything is on clearnet. What else?
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Thanks.
Not sure it's easy to improve, but esplora lookups aren't as good as monitoring with home node, right? Kinda intrinsic to not having a home node. Just a first thought. Also this model used by phoenix and alby of single channel connection to LN obv has huge advantages but has a privacy tradeoff right.
Tradeoff, but with Alby the routing is done on the client side so if you self-host they canât trivially see where the payment is going. They can do timing correlation with other information but thatâs a much more involved attack. Sadly, today, Phoenix does routing on the server side so they see the payment destination in the clear.
As for esplora, yea, itâs not ideal, but if youâre using a fixed LSP it doesnât matter - the LSP knows all your on-chain info anyway, and ideally your payments are lightning so the on-chain information isnât âthe interesting partâ (aside from any on-chain setup deposits).
Oh, i had no idea about tge routing distinction, that's interesting.
You can open more than 1 channel and, as you point out, you probably should. Choosing a different LSP is a bit more "advanced", but the option is there. Great point on the esplora lookup.