439 sats \ 2 replies \ @rijndael 20 Dec 2022 \ on: Lightning Surveillance as a Service is Here! bitcoin
Not really. This is some basic aggregation and processing of data that's advertised by nodes. The "good stuff" are things like running multiple well-connected and well-capitalized nodes to correlate HTLCs across multi-hop payments. Geolocating node IP or making a dashboard out of data gossiped to the network is useful, but its not som huge privacy invasion: that dat was public already.
@layers and (I think) LNRouter have opt-in tools to share data about payment flows so that the service can aggregate liquidity distribution across the network. Some services (and analysis companies) also actively probe to try to determine liquidity distribution on channels
Thanks, this is correct - @Layers provides a window into public data available to everyone. One of the biggest challenges to LN is that the data is an evolving graph (not a blockchain). We provide infrastructure to provide deterministic, time series based data (that anyone could also collect) - and provide analysis and reporting on specific aspects of the datasets that can be valuable.
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Is the thermal radiation that your body emits also publicly available? Anyone with a thermal imaging camera and a drone can see where you are sitting in the privacy of your own home.
Elon's private jet transmits it's coordinates in a publicly available radio band.
Just because the information exists, doesn't mean I want people to have easy access to it.
Anything that helps others access information about someone against their will is surveillance.
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