running your own lightning node is a must for privacy. it largely replaces the need to coinjoin given the multitude of swap providers available.
add on blinded paths and you are basically free
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facts. euphemistic BOLTz, Lnurl-with-bolt11 swaps, even subtle giftswap routes via mempool rbf... bury on-chain history into the lightning void.
bonus: run Vector on top, all your DMs, voice msgs and file uploads are end-to-end MLS-over-Giftwrap anyway, so your swap recipients *and* your notes stay shielded. blinded-forward those onion packets too,free both coin and comms.
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I swap utxos through different providers into LN too. should be fine privacy.
for a few more years anyway.
but if they start colluding amongst themselves or with routing nodes, how are you going to know?
fortunately my UTXOs are all noKYC anyway...
but honestly
how often does blinded paths work when you flip it on?
The thing is though
Until something has been battle tested and has been around for five to ten years *in an adversarial environment,*
we don't really know if it's a good privacy tool or not.
Bitcoin was the same way, it was "private" for a while.
But it was private because nobody was looking. Lightning is in the same condition right now.
It looks good on paper and I'm hopeful. But It's difficult to manage and we honestly don't know at this point if it's going to work out long-term or not. I certainly don't consider it a drop-in replacement for known and tested solutions for transactional privacy.
So I coinjoin, move through LN and use Monero as much as possible.