My latest essay is "Connector Swaps" -- a new proposal for swapping from LN to L1 in only 1 transaction I compare the new proposal with alternatives including Splices, Submarine Swaps, and my own Papa Swap protocol that I implemented last year https://gist.github.com/supertestnet/1844b927ec6e9e17d476a5fc2d691668

> we have lightning payments but there is no privacy I can't agree with a statement like "lightning payments have no privacy." Lightning provides a pretty strong baseline for privacy. It's not perfect (it's not even good, absolutely speaking), but it's not nothing, and if used carefully (e.g. if you run your own lightning node on tor and learn how to manage channels) I think it's better than alternative solutions such as monero. Still, lots of work to do, and I'm glad it's being done.

Running whatever version you want is exactly what the loud noises are all about

Zaps face a different privacy challenge: the protocol requires the sender and the recipient to identify themselves and the amount sent, and publish that info for all to see in a "zap receipt." It is possible to use zap infrastructure to send someone money without publishing a zap receipt, and this would help privacy conscious people, but I don't think anyone has built an app for that.

he has been near bitcoin since 2010 so what does that make bitcoin?

if you're running Zeus and not running a full node then you're trusting whoever *is* running a full node. In Zeus's case, this means you're trusting the nodes your Zeus wallet reaches out to for bip157 filters.

I guess bitcoin can't be good then

> Will the big nodes execute it? How do we know they're executing it? Are we turning privacy into a matter of faith? I think this gets really interesting if/when routing nodes start publishing privacy policies, e.g. "we do not log payments." Then you can start to build routes that *do* have some cryptographic guarantees. E.g. "if I route my payment through N nodes with zero-log policies, then even if only 1 is honest, an attacker gets subpoenas records from every node on my route *still* won't find full records of my payment." Many cryptographic protocol rely on assumptions like that one. Tor works like this and Dandelion++ works like this, for example. Lightning has always had privacy assumptions that work best when routing nodes don't collude together, but these assumptions are undermined if attackers can easily access node logs and thus effectively *force* them to collude after-the-fact. If every node has the ability to easily delete logs, that makes lightning's privacy assumptions stronger, because it makes it more likely that an attacker who tries to acquire those logs won't be able to get them.

Goofus and Gallant

On a related note:

Good news for lightning privacy: LND has new docs describing a forthcoming feature called "deletefwdinghistory" which purges your node's historical transaction logs Much requested by me, Peter Todd, and others Give it a read and thank the devs! https://github.com/Roasbeef/lnd/blob/017299fe6f3aec3d8c7ece84c383a47da59862f0/docs/forwarding_history_privacy.md

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010 Haven't seen it so I don't know if it's any good but this 30 second clip is funny

Bitcoin Implementations

In the end, the prompters become the prompted Maybe you could write another agent to answer their questions on your behalf

The fourth amendment doesn't specify that it only applies to citizens, and perhaps one reason why is, an officer often doesn't immediately know if the person they want to arrest is a citizen or not. If the law allowed federal officers to enter and search people's homes without a judicial warrant so long as they claim to suspect a non-citizen lives there (and, in fact, the law does effectively allow this), then that loophole would render the fourth amendment's anti-search protections meaningless (as, in fact, the warrant issuance loophole does).

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention: - steam powered trains to move soldiers around The US train system only came into existence about 30 years before the civil war broke out, and most lines were new. I'll bet many soldiers had only barely "heard of" trains when they were suddenly shipped off on one to shoot, kill, and die

Yeah but movies often create demand by advertisements that share their interesting premise, which generates curiosity, and thus demand