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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 25 Nov 2022
Once taproot is implemented for channel openings, I imagine it'll hide the information currently visible such as the fact it is a lightning channel and that it is a channel e.g. between Mangoo Tree and Aare Bank?
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1298 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd 25 Nov 2022
No it won't actually. That information isn't in the blockchain. What's happening is that mempool.space is running a lightning node, and collecting the gossipped public channel information. Public channels reveal what txout is associated with the channel.
That's one reason why private channels exist!
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 25 Nov 2022
Ok got. Thanks for the clarification.
Sounds similar to what Amboss announced doing, i.e. report on the channel balances information they gather through their platform and LN gossip, no? I might be wrong on the specifics (Amboss, the means to achieve it,...).
Well, if it's permissionless, they are allowed to do it. I guess privacy improvements will have to come from development efforts to control this depending on one's needs.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 25 Nov 2022
In fact, mempool.space also provides information on Lightning channels and nodes now, just like Amboss.
In the future there will probably be ways to remove Lightning channel txout information from the public lightning channel info. But that isn't trivial to implement as lightning uses the fact that you need to create a txout as an anti-spam mechanism for the gossiped channel info.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd 25 Nov 2022
LND has had the ability to do this for quite some time. Tricky to actually pull off though.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @iguano 25 Nov 2022
Why is this tricky ? We need an exchange that create those channels with their node and their customers
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 25 Nov 2022
The way the RPC calls work makes it a bit tricky to actually open multiple channels in a single tx by hand.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 24 Nov 2022
no looking payjoin?
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