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I want to set up my Lightning Node and need privacy tips. I tried to use Nolooking to open the channel. However, something went wrong, probably the payjoin payment via Sparrow Wallet. Does anyone have experience with this?

Nolooking is a pretty new app, maybe go troubleshoot with their team.

There's a TLDR at the end of https://abytesjourney.com/lightning-privacy for setting up a node.

The TLDR of the TLDR is to lease channels from others, though maybe avoid Magma since the amboss team is running surveillance as a service products now and that Magma product may be an arm of their surveillance goals.

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I don't know what Nolooking is, though it seems to optimise opening batches of channels?

If I was opening a single channel and privacy conscience, I would prefer a private channel. That way, the channel is gossiped over the network.

This works if you only want to send and receive sats. i.e. no routing.

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What about being a merchant. Does it work with private channels?

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Only if you have a single customer, the one that holds the other end of your channel. Otherwise your node must be public because your customers must find a route to it. But it can be behind Tor.

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Don't know, my guess is yes.

But if you are a merchant, you typical give up some privacy. So what is your priority, being a merchant or privacy.

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