hahaha and you talk about privacy but you like to comply with the state ruling over you. How about tell them to fuck off, is not their own business? Who is "european regulation" that can rule what you do on your own website? Why do you need to gather user statistics? Are you sell it? Is that website a commercial site or a informational site?

Virtually zero use of Lightning in highly adversarial environment DNMs. Closest thing to a free market possible. You must know better than those with ultimate skin in the game. Reciever privacy sucks. Balances discoverable. IP not hidden by default. So private!

-https://voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-network-faq/lightning-network-privacy-explainer/ "The lighting network still falls short of the words of Eric Hughes in his “Cypherpunk Manifesto”. While at first glance lightning seems more private than layer one payments by taking payments off-chain, one has to consider how lighting enables these off-chain payments in the first place to understand how users’ privacy might be affected when using the network."

-https://blog.keys.casa/lightning-privacy-101/ "There is a misconception here, however, as private channels are not private in the sense that they are any more confidential than public channels."

-https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470.pdf "We identified 27,183 private channels, discovered hidden balances, and showed how a passive adversary can infer payment endpoints with very high probability."

-#234993 "Are LN users naively thinking LN is private?"