Chainalysis on Lightning Network #LightningFriday 12/17/2021 with Jestopher and Chaz

This episode of the podcast is a #LightningFriday livestream from December 17th, 2021. In this episode we talk about the recent drama with Chainalysis announcing support for transaction monitoring.

We talk about:

• Chainalysis Twitter Drama
• Who are the customers of Chainalysis?
• What is Clustering?
• How do you do blockchain analysis?
• How can you decrease the chances of being tracked?
• Chainalysis on Lightning vs On-Chain
• What can you determine from a Lightning channel open/close?
• Game Theory of Lightning Network and Nation States
• Can the IRS afford to surveil the Lightning Network?
• Lightning Chainalysis in Practice using Strike as Example
• Could the government take out a massive Bitcoin loan to attack LN?
• Difficulty in Attacking Lightning Network with Brute Force
• Amboss being similar to Chainalysis?
• What are the implications of having bad privacy on Lightning?
• AD SHILL AD SHILL AD SHILL AD SHILL
• LNURL and Carrot
• Lightning Address
• Onboarding Parents into Bitcoin Lightning

LINKS N’ STUFF
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Chainaylsis Announcement: https://twitter.com/LNJunkies/status/1469357060479328259
Samourai: https://samouraiwallet.com/
Anthony Ronning Privacy Article: https://abytesjourney.com/lightning-privacy/

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