There’s a few ways around this. Send your funds in and out of liquid then send some over to self custody on your own lightning node and spend with lightning. There’s no need to give people the address of your main stack if you don’t want to. Sure it’s a work around at present but over time it’ll become easier and easier. These things take time but saying that the pace of development is unreal in my mind. And Nostr and zaps are the icing on the cake. You can top up lightning channels using liquid atomic swaps.
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Why would I trust a federation with my coins it’s basically trusting an exchange. When I mean privacy I mean just as easy as using cash. Not giving up my coins to custodian who may not return my coins and hope my txs can’t be traced back to me. From what I read it. You need true end-2-end encryption from the privacy experts I have spoken to.
Using liquid in and out for privacy isn’t a worry there’s nothing custodial about it as you just said it’s federated! If you want to use cash as in hand people the physical #Bitcoin use an
Or print your own cash using a paper wallet to the value you wish - https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-wallet/paper/ 