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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 20 Dec \ parent \ on: Is ecash private enough for dark markets? privacy
Is Liquid more or less private than Lightning?
I realize this is a dumb question
Liquid is less private than lightning
- every liquid transaction exposes the sender's address to everyone who cares to look
- every liquid transaction exposes the recipient's address to everyone who cares to look
- every liquid transaction exposes partial info about the amount sent (namely, the fee paid) to everyone who cares to look
Lightning is more private by default, but not completely untraceable unless you take extra precautions, and maybe not even then. What makes lightning better "by default" is that you don't expose information about the sender/recipient/amount to everyone; you sometimes expose some of it to routing nodes along your path, but not to everyone who cares to look, and lightning also provides tools (like blinded paths and multipath payments) for obscuring that info from routing nodes too.
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