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I guess that's also good reasoning for why when constructing lightning channels on your LN node, you should avoid centrality to a degree. That might mean it is more costly for you when path finding payments, but it also ensures a much more diverse path across the network which would make deduction of this type much more difficult.

Tyler Burns 2y ago

Too many nodes take the easy route (no pun intended) and build channels to the biggest and most connected nodes.

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Peter Todd 2y ago

I'm one of those node operators admittedly. 😂

It'd be good for LN payment software to have the option of not always using the most efficient routes too.

Tyler Burns 2y ago

For sure. I believe alternative path finding algorithms are being worked on. I think Rene Pinkhardt is doing some work there. Not just from a privacy perspective, but also scalability since as the network grows, path finding can become much more difficult.

MTozoni ⚡😺 2y ago

Thunderhub and/or RTL let you pick the channel to pay from. There's also the option of multi-path payments that splits your total into smaller amounts across multiple channels.

Tyler Burns 2y ago

Ya, seems like MPPs are becoming much more widely supported which is pretty cool.