Unfortunately this is not always the case
I want to congratulate nostr:nprofile1qqszfn67p6jlle0qsj7lwx2l0ylxpse83e0x56qe5euxtwgwnyzdfqgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnww5q3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyswfy07 for finding an LN transaction and posting it
Let's see info he learned:
- sender? Himself -- assuming he sent from a self-custodial wallet, he even knows the address or channel of the sender, wow!
- recipient? He knows the recipient's communication pubkey, node, and node name -- though not learn the address or channel that received the money
- Amount? 69 sats
- Fee? less than 1 sat
That's a lot of info! More than I'd get from analyzing a monero transaction.
Reading this back, it sounds sarcastic; it's not, I am being genuine: this really is more info than I'd get from analyzing a monero transaction, and it motivates me to work on making LN better. Thanks Kevin!
Discussion
it occurred to me afterward that I would actually get *more* info from analyzing a monero transaction *if* -- like him -- I was the sender
sender -- the sender of a monero payment obviously knows who the sender is
recipient -- the sender of a monero transaction also knows which of the recipient's addresses got the money, whereas in LN, the channel that received the money is hidden from the sender
amount -- the sender of a monero transaction obviously knows what amount he sent
fee -- the sender of a monero transaction obviously knows what fee he paid
So I was wrong before when I said Kevin learned more from analyzing his own LN transaction than I would learn by analyzing a monero transaction that I myself made. He actually learned less.
More privacy is always a good thing (as long as we can get, and not break anything)
If you nuke your node the txns are also gone forever, whereas if your Monero pubkey leaks you can always recover the txns
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