Soooo

this is just regular "big blocks are bad" FUD.

Could be a problem, sure

but nobody knows at exactly what point you have to go up a layer to maintain adequate decentralization (whatever that means).

Also you keep harping on this point

>the sender always knows the recipient's "real" address (the one on the blockchain) and can provably map it to their stealth address.

which is completely true.

But I'm really having a problem coming up with an attack where that information is useful in any way.

for example,

The Adversary sends monero to their target.

so they can see on the chain when that output *might have been* spent.

aaaand....?

its not useful in large scale surveillance.

and it's barely useful in specific targeted surveillance scenarios.

>setting up an LN node privately is barely more difficult than setting up a monero node.

i call bullshit.

anyone who can find the cmdline can set up a monero node on old hardware or VPS in an hour copypasta-ing from a guide.

I spent an hour yesterday just trying to figure out why all payments to my Zeus wallet were failing.

but almost certainly we both underestimate the difficulties for noobs starting from close to zero.

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