I really hope #cashu nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg is the answer. Especially if we are able to minimize impact from custodial solutions. Federation is great but I don't know many people running a lightning node... so building a community that is trusted and technically skilled is hard. It should be possible to achieve privacy even if you are using custodial backends. Could maybe bolt12 help with that?
TIL the word privacy does not appear in any of the 59 pages of the lightning network whitepaper: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
By contrast, the bitcoin whitepaper has a half-page dedicated to privacy (the whole thing is only 9 pages)
Perhaps privacy wasn't a focus of LN's inventors
Discussion
> I really hope cashu is the answer
The answer to what?
I think cashu is great for small amounts that you're okay with losing
It can maybe also serve a useful purpose as some sort of modern mixer, still thinking about that though
Privacy... In my opinion it is digital cash, although it is currently a custodial solution. If we find a way to implement #cashu within lightning itself, it's unstoppable. We don't need to make custodians obsolete, we just need to make it hard or impossible to analyze our transactions.