Lightning reciever privacy is bad and amounts can be inferred: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470.pdf

Liquid only hides amounts. Transaction graph is completely visible.

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LN -> Capacity issues, not for thousands of dollars txs
L-BTC -> Federated, your coins are in a multisig wallet while snapping, hard pass, not your keys, not your coins. You are trusting a bunch of corporations to be "good guys".

For small amounts, LN seems a logical choice if you know what you are doing, hence, it is not for everyone

Not bad thinking. But also not the most ideal IMO.

Monero is like... the most palatable shitcoin a Bitcoiner could like. And I get going to and from XMR seems plausible.

But there are alternatives better than atomic swaps.

Consider Liquid and Lightning more in depth.

And I'm not much a fan of coinjoins as they're hot wallets under the hood. I'd rather trust a federation.

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I think that Simple Swaps BTC->XMR->BTC are better than mixing. Change my mind

Not bad thinking. But also not the most ideal IMO. 

Monero is like... the most palatable shitcoin a Bitcoiner could like. And I get going to and from XMR seems plausible. 

But there are alternatives better than atomic swaps. 

Consider Liquid and Lightning more in depth. 

And I'm not much a fan of coinjoins as they're hot wallets under the hood. I'd rather trust a federation. 