What doxxing? This is the same as running lncli sendpayment directly from your node. Are you suggesting users should not have full control over their node to run whatever commands they choose?

Keysend was introduced into lightning in the early days without issue because it turns out that it is very useful to be able to attach metadata when you are sending payments over the internet.

Most lightning apps support keysend in some way, if you have used a lightning wallet you have probably used keysend.

It sounds like you have an issue with the protocol itself. So your best course of action would be to open PRs in all of the major lightning implementations removing keysend support and try to get that merged. You will also want to reach out to as many lightning apps as possible to gather feedback about your proposed breaking changes.

I wish you the best of luck!

There is no other protocol, Cipherchat just uses lightning. :)

Pubkeys are also publicly available so it gives a way for nodes to communicate with eachother without knowing any other information. It can be very useful if you need to coordinate channel closures or notify peers of upcoming downtime for example.

Those things are not comparable in the slightest.

Who's saying to share your pubkey with anyone you don't want to know it? Do you give your phone number to people you don't want to contact you... The fundamentals of privacy is sharing information with people you choose, that choice is up to you.

Haha the response to that comment is bang-on. There is no difference between messages and payments.

Cipherchat uses Lightning Node Connect which is used by many bitcoin apps including Zeus, Alby etc. It is not possible to link your identity to your node with LNC. Also the whole stack can be self-hosted. All of this is explained in the FAQ and Privacy page.

no ETA yet - I want to see how much interest there is after the initial launch but it is on the roadmap for sure!

Thank you!

I agree it is an improvement on privacy but they have taken a censorial stance on search results in the past, so that's why I currently use Brave Search for the best results + privacy.

Thanks for reading, yep running a bitcoin full node is super easy - as it should be! :)

I was able to send her more sats, so the widget it working - it must be that the lightning wallet you are sending from has no route to the destination node.

cool! subscribed, donated and followed, keep up the great work!

that is so awesome to hear!! what is your blog? I will check it out :)

Awesome, let me know how it goes! :)

I'm going to try to do 1 blog post a month so stay tuned.. 😃

Thanks! And don't be intimidated by code - you can do it!

No problem. :)