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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