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dude he's just talking about their LN integration.

it doesn't have anything to do with Monero.

Possibly. Let's say LightSpark's buddies at Mossad (or wherever) hand David Marcus a list of I.P. addresses, and say: "give us all activity associated with these I.P. addresses."

LightSpark knows that at 64.287.213.41 (or whatever), there is a Cake user, who transacted once over Lightning.

They know it's a Cake user, and Cake users are also known to use Monero.

So, sure, it's not a smoking gun.

But the idea that you're using the same app to transmit a privacy coin while at the same time sending constant IP traffic to "the narcs" at LightSpark... that seems insane to me.... why would you do this?

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Hanshan 2mo ago 💬 1

yes I don't use Cake wallet either, never have.

but that's a helluva stretch.

"Mossad is gonna suspect you are a Monero user!" 🥱

Rizful.com 2mo ago 💬 1

Monero is supposed to be useful for privacy.

Isn't it fair to warn people who are using Monero on an app which happens to ping LightSpark's servers whenever a lightning payment is sent or received?

Seems like an appropriate worry?

Rizful.com 2mo ago 💬 1

Also, how many Cake wallet users (or Blitz, or Wallet of Satsohi) actually understand that their I.P. addresses are going to LightSpark?

I bet if you asked 10 of them randomly, none of them would know.

Contrast this, say, to CoinOS. How many CoinOs users know that CoinOs gets to see their I.P. address? All of them know it. It's obvious.

Hanshan 2mo ago

Sure. They should know.

and even more important, if your payments are that sensitive you need to know about network security.

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