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

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