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55 sats \ 17 replies \ @south_korea_ln 1 Apr \ on: It's Back to BTC for Darknet Markets After Monero's Binance Delisting bitcoin

No mention of lightning, even though that's the best way to preserve privacy in the BTC ecosystem, if done correctly. As far as I know.

60 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 1 Apr

if done correctly.

big IF imo, next to the sysadmin challenge of having to run an always-online node with enough inbound liquidity for something as essential like receiving payments next to running your DNM.

53 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 Apr

oh and it's a hot wallet for potentially a lot of funds unless they regularly swap to onchain

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Apr

Is it not possible to receive lightning payments if your node goes offline? Can it be engineered so that you can?

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 1 Apr

There's zaplocker today (it locks liquidity on the route so people hate it). We'll eventually see async payments via LSPs but they are still being spec'd out.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shadowybadger 2 Apr

Imagine using an LSP as a DNM merchant 😂😂😂

84 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 1 Apr

Certainly for senders - especially if you're non-custodial and not dependent on a trampoline, it's excellent. Receiver privacy is improving too with blinded paths.

65 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 1 Apr

We need more Bolt 12 integration, plus wrapped invoices.

I would like to see much better Silent Payments support, as far as I know there are only 2 wallets that support it - basically Wasabi and Cake. Wasabi is desktop only... and Cake is multi-coin and so many Bitcoiners don't use it.

We need way, way more education

110 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 1 Apr

https://silentpayments.xyz/docs/wallets/

A few more, maybe, but your point stands. Not enough, even though it's a great approach. The Canadian truckers would likely have benefited from this if it had been around.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 2 Apr

I don't know why we don't have full-on, complete embrace of silent payments.

My understanding is that they are a huge improvement on privacy... which we need desperately. Still don't understand why the blocks are mostly empty... if it's a privacy thing then better education and privacy tools might help.

Don't know.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 19h

I don't know why we don't have full-on, complete embrace of silent payments.

Probably something to ask Ruben Somsen. Silent payments are his brainchild. He's not on SN, but he could maybe join for an ~ama? Not sure the topic would suscite enough interest from Stackers here though.

32 sats \ 5 replies \ @rafael_xmr 1 Apr

well of course there is no mention of LN, if you open dread today there's zero discussion about LN on the darknet