I'm joined by guests [Tbast]( https://twitter.com/realtbast ), [Dusty]( https://twitter.com/dusty_daemon ), [Tony]( https://snort.social/p/npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv ), [Jeff]( https://twitter.com/jkczyz ) & [Vivek]( https://twitter.com/Seardsalmon ) to discuss lightning privacy and splicing.

**Discussion Topics:**

* 00:01:17 Housekeeping

* 00:02:14 Guest introductions

* 00:04:29 Current state of LN privacy

* 00:05:40 Receiver privacy

* 00:06:58 Blinded paths

* 00:12:31 Obscurity of lightning

* 00:13:47 Onchain privacy compared to lightning privacy

* 00:19:57 Lightning privacy challenges

* 00:21:57 PTLCs

* 00:22:48 Routing and LSPs

* 00:24:20 Gossip filters

* 00:25:36 Gossip and BOLT7 summary

* 00:27:27 Speed of development

* 00:29:22 Lightning implementations and compatability

* 00:31:38 BOLT12

* 00:34:00 Why an additional node implementation? (LDK)

* 00:40:04 Feature experimentation and market validation

* 00:43:29 Communicating feature sets

* 00:45:05 Payment descriptions

* 00:47:32 Nostr and zaps

* 00:50:25 Custodial lightning and censorship resistance

* 00:54:39 Splicing

* 00:57:51 Scaling

* 01:01:32 Bitcoin core changes that would advance lightning

* 01:08:06 Testing, breaking and adversarial actions

* 01:12:48 Shadow channels

* 01:15:52 Splicing (cont.)

* 01:22:04 Payjoins and keysend

* 01:25:52 Blockspace concerns

* 01:34:04 Taproot channels and gossip

* 01:41:09 Splicing (cont.)

* 01:42:13 Signing, UTXOs and pre-signed splices

* 01:47:15 FROST

* 01:47:60 Swap-in potentium

* 01:48:49 ecash

* 01:53:18 Final thoughts

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**Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-36**