2026-01-18 12:07:23 UTC

npub1ln…arrnt on Nostr: In Monero, the sender knows where they have sent the funds, but in Lightning, if you ...

In Monero, the sender knows where they have sent the funds, but in Lightning, if you use blinded paths or lnproxy, the sender does not know where they have sent the funds.

Even so, because Lightning requires you to have infrastructure, this is one of the reasons why Lightning is not successful in the black markets of the dark web.
In Monero, the biggest privacy issue is the reuse of subaddresses, which everyone puts on their profile to receive donations. An attacker can send small amounts to use as decoys in the recipient's future expenses.

In Lightning, the biggest privacy issue apart from custody services is the identification of the recipient's node, which allows you to obtain the balance of public channels, but not private ones.