Mining pools should not know who you are. 👀

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Sadly in lightning if you’re doing repeated payments, even with a fresh BOLT 12 each time with blinded paths, in practice you can probably group most outbound payments :/

Dang, ok

how? what info lets you group them?

Not thinking of one single thing, but there’s plenty of ways fingerprinting different users is likely possible. If you have 10K withdraws per user you can probably cluster the blinded paths many of them are using, add on top features which may identify specific clients and you can probably do pretty well. Obv you can’t tell the difference been any two invoices for different Phoenix (or other wallet with a fixed LSP (set)) wallets, but across wallets I’m skeptical it’s robustly private.

sounds like a fun thing to test for a hackathon project

Sounds more like a six month academic research project, but 🤷‍♂️