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

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