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Will use the private channels only if there's a direct and feasible path to the destination.
I don't think you understood what I was saying. I'm talking about third party payments routed through your own.
If the private channel is cooperatively closed using the Taproot key path, it won't be known as a channel open.
It's not obvious at least. But transactions for taproot channels have distinct characteristics compared to transactions made by lnd's wallet (and probably other LN implementations). So an adversary may still be able to detect that by heuristics.
Nevertheless, you can have public channels and in the same time taproot channels.
Note that if you have both public and private channels on LND, payments from others that are routed through your node will also use the private channels. This works because Lightning routing is based on nodes, not channels. So the routing information doesn't specify what channel to actually use.
I don't know if other LN implementations do this to. They might. I just haven't tested it myself.
This is a usefu privacy feature as it makes it harder to figure out where payments are actually going.
Obviously "kinetic sanctions" means physically attacking things instead or financially sanctioning them.
It's extremely effective. At the moment almost 50% of Russia's refinery capacity is down, and they're rationing fuel even in Moscow; in some of Russia civilians can't legally buy fuel at all.
Doesn't really matter that much frankly. Kinetic sanctions are very effective:
https://m.stacker.news/147583
Omsk Refinery, about 2500km from Ukraine.
Not just refineries either. Here is a hit this week on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea:
https://m.stacker.news/147584
In the past week Ukraine has hit something like a dozen Russian ships with air and sea drones.
Sanctions are useful for making it very clear, legally speaking, which ships Ukraine should be hitting... 😂
About 60% of Russian athletes are active Russian military personnel. They're legal military targets and Ukraine would be entirely justified killing them.
Not so likely to actually happen at the Olympics. But maybe.
Batshit decision from the IOC. If Russian athletes want to compete, they can defect and leave Russia. As it is, about half of their tax revenue is going to the invasion of Ukraine. That alone is evil enough.
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/34853531198634
France's tax authority has leaked information on Bitcoin ownership that has lead to home invasions, assaults, and even people being tortured.
Collecting this information was absurdly reckless and French bureaucrats should in prison for this.
War is more than just holding territory right now. Ukraine is creating conditions that in the future will leave Russia unable to hold territory; taking territory back then, rather than attempting to do so now, is a far better use of lives and resources.
It all does, consistently. Hard to say why to be honest. But I guess it's just a bit too long winded.
Good question.
Ukraine buys a lot of weapons parts from china, eg. for drones, and it's not uncommon to find Chinese suppliers that choose to only work with Ukraine. But I think in the bigger picture, China is backing Russia. Without Chinese support, this war would be over a lot sooner with the Russian economy collapsing even sooner.
Overall, China is an enemy of the west, and the amount of trade we do with China is stupid.
Right now, Ukraine.
So much Russian oil infrastructure has been blown up that Russia is negotiating with Kazakhstan to import gasoline to alleviate shortages in Moscow: https://english.nv.ua/business/moscow-arranges-gasoline-imports-from-kazakhstan-50619044.html
In Crimea, gas and diesel sales to non-governmental entities have been suspended entirely: https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/fuel-sales-halted-in-occupied-crimea-as-fire-burns-at-kerch-fuel-terminal-50617995.html
This doesn't mean Russia is going to collapse right away – I wouldn't be surprised if we have another two years of war – but it does mean there is a feasible path to total victory for Ukraine. All they have to do is hold on, while destroying Russia's economy. Eventually the front lines will simply collapse due to lack of fuel, ammo, and food.
Ukrainians are the ones choosing to defend themselves against Russia's psychotic violence. They know full well that if they fail, Ukraine will be wiped out.
No I'm not.