I'm joined by guests Tbast, Dusty, Tony, Jeff & Vivek to discuss lightning privacy and splicing.
00:01:17 Housekeeping00:02:14 Guest introductions00:04:29 Current state of LN privacy00:05:40 Receiver privacy00:06:58 Blinded paths00:12:31 Obscurity of lightning00:13:47 Onchain privacy compared to lightning privacy00:19:57 Lightning privacy challenges00:21:57 PTLCs00:22:48 Routing and LSPs00:24:20 Gossip filters00:25:36 Gossip and BOLT7 summary00:27:27 Speed of development00:29:22 Lightning implementations and compatability00:31:38 BOLT1200:34:00 Why an additional node implementation? (LDK)00:40:04 Feature experimentation and market validation00:43:29 Communicating feature sets00:45:05 Payment descriptions00:47:32 Nostr and zaps00:50:25 Custodial lightning and censorship resistance00:54:39 Splicing00:57:51 Scaling01:01:32 Bitcoin core changes that would advance lightning01:08:06 Testing, breaking and adversarial actions01:12:48 Shadow channels01:15:52 Splicing (cont.)01:22:04 Payjoins and keysend01:25:52 Blockspace concerns01:34:04 Taproot channels and gossip01:41:09 Splicing (cont.)01:42:13 Signing, UTXOs and pre-signed splices01:47:15 FROST01:47:60 Swap-in potentium01:48:49 ecash01:53:18 Final thoughtsWebsite: https://bitcoin.review/PodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhqNVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvkTelegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPodNostr & LN:⚡[email protected] (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-36