> He's wrong about unencrypted receiver (or meant something else)
I meant what I said: monero does not encrypt the receiver. If it did, monero devs could tell me what encryption standard they use (in lightning, we use the Sphinx encryption standard specified in bolt4) and they could point me to the code where the recipient's key gets encrypted (in lightning, that code is here: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/b068d79dfbd2f583d890fd605953d0d4fb897a27/htlcswitch/hop/iterator.go#L114)
Monero does not encrypt the recipient's public key -- it gets published in plaintext on the blockchain -- so the protocol does not specify any encryption standard for that and there is nothing in the codebase where it gets encrypted.
Alright, that's true. But it's not a good argument against Monero privacy because the link between UTXO and the receiver is still hidden from third parties and the link between receiver and his subsequent receiver is also hidden from the sender. The link between sender's sender and the sender is somewhat obscured, as you said with probability 1/15.
I do agree that LN has better privacy than Monero, but using bad arguments doesn't help anyone.
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