TIL the word privacy does not appear in any of the 59 pages of the lightning network whitepaper: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
By contrast, the bitcoin whitepaper has a half-page dedicated to privacy (the whole thing is only 9 pages)
Perhaps privacy wasn't a focus of LN's inventors
Ha! That's a good catch.
The paper had some tremendously insightful thinking in it, but it was terribly hard to read, I found.
impossible
I really hope #cashu nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk is the answer. Especially if we are able to minimize impact from custodial solutions. Federation is great but I don't know many people running a lightning node... so building a community that is trusted and technically skilled is hard. It should be possible to achieve privacy even if you are using custodial backends. Could maybe bolt12 help with that?
> I really hope cashu is the answer
The answer to what?
I think cashu is great for small amounts that you're okay with losing
It can maybe also serve a useful purpose as some sort of modern mixer, still thinking about that though
Privacy... In my opinion it is digital cash, although it is currently a custodial solution. If we find a way to implement #cashu within lightning itself, it's unstoppable. We don't need to make custodians obsolete, we just need to make it hard or impossible to analyze our transactions.
