Our goal is to help the lightning network become a high-performance, sustainable payment network. Due to the decentralized nature of lightning, this involves a lot of coordination. The best way to coordinate is to have good communication, which means collecting information and relaying it.

Right now, traditional payment systems have complete visibility into every payment. Lightning is fundamentally different and in many ways superior, except in payment reliability.

It's necessary for us to collect data to help with payment reliability and we do so exclusively on an opt-in basis.