In Eli5 mode what are the privacy and trust tradeoffs while using the LNP2PBot offers ?
New Robosats release v0.7.3-alpha
What's new
- Android app now can use nostr to fetch the orders book
- LNP2PBot orders now available if you enable nostr! (Third party orders are not managed by a RoboSats coordinators. Please ensure you are comfortable with the privacy and trust trade-offs.)
- Better display coordinator info on the Create Order
- Fixed exchange summary
https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/v0.7.3-alpha
Discussion
Trust/Security: Third parties are not Robosats coordinators and doesn't have the same mechanisms as the ones used by Robosats. This doesn't have to be intrinsically bad, but you need to make sure your are well informed.
Privacy: Robosats is completelly anonymous because everything happens under Tor, peer2coordinator2peer and with no other actors involved. As an example, LNP2PBot has Telegram in between, so if you want yo stay private you need to make sure to still use Tor while connecting to Telegram and do it with a pseudonymous user, plus other considerations.