131 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout 11 Jul 2022 \ on: I'm Evan Kaloudis, Founder of Zeus. July 11th AMA! bitcoin
Are there specific features improving privacy in LN that you are excited about? Either existing or upcoming?
Do you think we will ever reach "full" privacy for amount, sender and destination? (for some definition of "full")
I'm super excited about blinded paths, Taproot channels, and SCIDs. These will take us a long way from where we are today.
You can already send on LN with high privacy guarantees. I believe the changes above will allow people to receive on LN with high privacy guarantees.
There are still challenges and complexity with things like probing, being online 24/7 (or relying on an LSP for help), gossip, etc. but we've got some great minds working on it.
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What are your views on HTLCs vs. PTLCs?
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Perfect! SCIDs seem to be also helping with probing privacy, so I'm excited about that. My understanding (from tony) is that currently you could jam attack essentially any node with no extra cost to you.
So maybe as a follow up - did you have to deal with any of the probing or jamming attacks in Zeus?
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We have some measures in place on our node. Bigger instances are certainly going to want to have some solid network monitoring tools in place and DDoS protections.
We can't really mitigate this at a network level for users in our product, but what we can do and what I've been thinking about is how to most easily let users do backups, restores, and distribute justice transactions as swiftly as possible.
While most fears about these sort of things should be assuaged by reasonable timelocks on your channels, there's still a bunch we can do to make casual end-users feel reassured
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