naruto on Nostr: Assume you're a stack duo user. You want to pay a paynym. You send the notification ...

Assume you're a stack duo user. You want to pay a paynym. You send the notification transaction to the paynym. You then use the change UTXO from the notification transaction to make the payment to the paynym. A presumably common flow if you intend to pay a paynym. The world sees the notification transaction and then sees the change UTXO spent in a subsequent tx.

Assume 2 other people do this same thing.

Now assume the recipient is another stack duo user who has posted their paynym somewhere. The recipient then consolidates those 3 payments in a subsequent tx.

This is strong evidence that anyone can use to form a lower bound on the amount the paynym received. Without a strong holistic privacy toolkit, leakages like this are bound to happen.