Super Testnet on Nostr: > which is completely true. But I'm really having a problem coming up with an attack ...
> which is completely true. But I'm really having a problem coming up with an attack where that information is useful in any way. ...its not useful in large scale surveillance. and it's barely useful in specific targeted surveillance scenarios.
It's how the guy traced in this chainalysis video was caught and arrested:
If he had used LN instead, the feds could not have told Chainalysis what addresses to watch, and Chainalysis could not have traced the outputs through multiple transactions to find out where they went.
> anyone who can find the cmdline can set up a monero node on old hardware or VPS in an hour copypasta-ing from a guide
Same with lightning. Really, give electrum a try.
It's how the guy traced in this chainalysis video was caught and arrested:
If he had used LN instead, the feds could not have told Chainalysis what addresses to watch, and Chainalysis could not have traced the outputs through multiple transactions to find out where they went.
> anyone who can find the cmdline can set up a monero node on old hardware or VPS in an hour copypasta-ing from a guide
Same with lightning. Really, give electrum a try.