BR036 - Lightning Privacy & Splice Panel ft. Tbast, Dusty, Tony, Jeff & Vivek

I'm joined by guests Tbast, Dusty, Tony, Jeff & Vivek to discuss lightning privacy and splicing.

Discussion Topics:

• 00:01:17 Housekeeping


• 00:02:14 Guest introductions


• 00:04:29 Current state of LN privacy


• 00:05:40 Receiver privacy


• 00:06:58 Blinded paths


• 00:12:31 Obscurity of lightning


• 00:13:47 Onchain privacy compared to lightning privacy


• 00:19:57 Lightning privacy challenges


• 00:21:57 PTLCs


• 00:22:48 Routing and LSPs


• 00:24:20 Gossip filters


• 00:25:36 Gossip and BOLT7 summary


• 00:27:27 Speed of development


• 00:29:22 Lightning implementations and compatability


• 00:31:38 BOLT12


• 00:34:00 Why an additional node implementation? (LDK)


• 00:40:04 Feature experimentation and market validation


• 00:43:29 Communicating feature sets


• 00:45:05 Payment descriptions


• 00:47:32 Nostr and zaps


• 00:50:25 Custodial lightning and censorship resistance


• 00:54:39 Splicing


• 00:57:51 Scaling


• 01:01:32 Bitcoin core changes that would advance lightning


• 01:08:06 Testing, breaking and adversarial actions


• 01:12:48 Shadow channels


• 01:15:52 Splicing (cont.)


• 01:22:04 Payjoins and keysend


• 01:25:52 Blockspace concerns


• 01:34:04 Taproot channels and gossip


• 01:41:09 Splicing (cont.)


• 01:42:13 Signing, UTXOs and pre-signed splices


• 01:47:15 FROST


• 01:47:60 Swap-in potentium


• 01:48:49 ecash


• 01:53:18 Final thoughts

Links & Contacts:

• Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast


• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq


• NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk


• Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod


• Email: [email protected]


• Nostr & LN:⚡[email protected] (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-36