cute.

but you're just another kid with a nostr account and no critical thinking skills

She is asking "what transaction?" because the LN payment failed and it never happened

Your lightning address is literally coinos.io

Try responding without memes or I'll start calling you darthcoin.

It's unclear what your critique is. I run a LN node... What exactly is your argument?

Do your best to use LN in a self custodial way and maintain your privacy. By all means. But again, please don't argue onchain Bitcoin is more private than onchain monero...

I've used LN long enough to lose tons of sats trying to work with something that's a fair headache at times... You seem like an ostrich about that.

I don't trust or respect people that can't see LN's drawbacks or shortcomings for self custodial use.

Could you give examples?

Seems like an apples to oranges comparison, but okay. Discounts the fact that 95% of lightning use is custodial... But okay

People *actually understanding* the trade-offs they make is important.

You are actively working against that understanding by spreading bullshit.

Lightning *probably* does provide *some* privacy guarantees.

mostly unquantifiable.

because it depends on a lot.

mostly outside the end users control.

Monero already does provide provable reliable privacy. for all users of the network.

You,

trying to twist every little thing you can

to fit your desired narrative,

works against the security of end users 💀

You will need almost 1 TB of disk space for a bitcoin node

TailsOS will be terrible to do any normal web browsing on because of the Tor blocks / CLoudflare CAPTCHAS

Is there a ln setup (self-custodial or trusted 3p) that makes transactions private?

they told us most of how they traced the Finnish guy's monero. After arresting him, they sent an information request to a swap service which knew precisely what address they sent the monero to (because monero does not encrypt the recipient address), and then they sent another information request to binance, who knew that address showed up as a "ring member" in a transaction to their exchange. So they knew it was him. Didn't require breaking any cryptography. Just following the trail through monero's public ledger.

just stop.

the "recipient" is a one time address which doesn't correlate to anything.

it's more bullshit pedantry to say "its not encrypted"

all a 3rd party knows is it a *possible send somewhere.

but has no idea if it appearing on the chain is a possible decoy or not.

and yeah i wrote a breakdown of the original Nikkei newspaper article when it broke.

I know you know this stories break every year or two and they have NEVER been because LE has made any technical progress in "tracing" monero.

nice save

yeah for monero you should turn on your VPN or tor

bullshit.

you are smart enough to know that there is NO deterministic way to identify the true spend in a ring.

and it's not particularly useful even if you do.

even your own "tracing tool" doesn't do much (if anything) except for a couple of heuristics.

the Japanese and Finnish stories are law enforcement FUDing good privacy tools, plain and simple.

as if they broke long established cryptographic primitives themselves and the ENTIRE FUCKING crypto community didn't hear about it.

do better.

Just download electrum and open some channels

Well, yeah but the $500 was implying channel, and or hardware costs.

Usually having a dedicated setup for this would be ideal.