nostranoobus on Nostr: Lightning receive privacy isn't too bad. The tradeoffs are much better compared to ...

Lightning receive privacy isn't too bad. The tradeoffs are much better compared to having a single address on the blockchain at least.

On Lightning, people still can't see how many transactions or how much money is being routed to me unless a party puts significant resources into monitoring the network. This isn't a crazy thing to imagine happening though given the rise in LSPs and the fact that chain analysis companies are incentivized to have a non-trivial amount of routing nodes, but Liquid has it's own challenges as well.

Confidential addresses do allow someone to blind the amounts and assets being transferred but utxo linking can still be done for example. I do like the idea of using Liquid as a mailbox though. Maybe Aqua will implement something like this in their newest release.