Farley on Nostr: Lightning already solves the privacy concern in a much more organic way. Transactions ...
Lightning already solves the privacy concern in a much more organic way. Transactions on Lightning aren’t recorded on the base layer, and routing through multiple nodes naturally obfuscates transaction paths. Unlike Fedimint, which requires trusting a federation, Lightning is trust-minimized and keeps transactions off-chain by design.
As Lightning adoption grows, privacy becomes a byproduct of scale. The more people use it, the harder it becomes to track flows of funds, making chain analysis increasingly ineffective. It’s like trying to trace water molecules in an ocean—eventually, it just blends into the movement.
So yeah, Fedimint feels unnecessary when you already have Lightning for privacy and self-custody for security. Adding an extra layer with trust-based federations doesn’t really improve anything—it just complicates what’s already working.
At this point, it seems like some people are trying to reinvent problems just to create solutions.
As Lightning adoption grows, privacy becomes a byproduct of scale. The more people use it, the harder it becomes to track flows of funds, making chain analysis increasingly ineffective. It’s like trying to trace water molecules in an ocean—eventually, it just blends into the movement.
So yeah, Fedimint feels unnecessary when you already have Lightning for privacy and self-custody for security. Adding an extra layer with trust-based federations doesn’t really improve anything—it just complicates what’s already working.
At this point, it seems like some people are trying to reinvent problems just to create solutions.