Amen to that!

LN private?

AFAIK, when making a payment over the LN, the payment path is disclosed. This means that the sender's node and the recipient's node are connected, making it possible to trace the transaction.

Am I missing something?

Yes 👍 💯

It is an interesting option, but, AFAIU, it uses Liquid side chain, centralized and federated, additionally, transactions still generate metadata, such as transaction size, fees, and timestamps about the transaction. While this metadata is less sensitive than the transaction details themselves, it can still be used by chain analysis corps and organized crime conglomerates (plenty of resources) to gather information about the transaction, clearly more private than without it,better than nothing but not a silver bullet.

Thanks for sharing, either way, wouldn't touch it.

Managing your UTXOs is very important as well as not reusing, agree. But, any basic chain analysis will dox your wallet very quickly.

What do you mean with privacy focused wallets? AFAIK we had only Samourai Wallet and Wasabi, but now we are out of options

ecash is private? You have any pointers? Either way, thanks for sharing, I'll check it out, although the idea is to transact with Bitcoin with privacy

A federated sidechain network, I am very uncomfortable with Liquid, is basically a corporate centralized owned L2, will never use it. Not planning to trust my funds to "middle men". Thanks for sharing though, appreciate it