But what about chain analysis? Is that still an issue with using Liquid?
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Liquid has confidential transactions so you can’t see the amount that is exchanged in every utxo. Chainanal can at most try to correlate amounts in swaps in and out of liquid e.g. You swap in 0,02 and swap out around 0,02 2 days later, heuristics associate you to those transactions even though no one can be sure (same as onchain heuristics)…
my understanding of Liquid is you can still follow the money, but you just can’t see the money
Why would you not just use Monero at that point? It's more private than almost everything I have ever seen for Bitcoin.
Why would you want that? Liquid is a permissioned network. It would be a worse Monero.
Short term price flucatuations occur on both Monero and Bitcoin so it's a wash anyway.
Just swap to Monero when needed and vice versa.
Liquid only has confidential txs. Transaction graph is still completely visible. IP visible by default. And it is a permissioned network.
Yes, they stand to lose if just anyone can create theirnown liquid like network.
Adam Back has to be neutral or pro ,because i suspect his cadre is behind the push smears against it.
His public personae has plausible deniability because his minions are working behind the scenes.