Kanzan on Nostr: although I'll point out that LN and ecash are NOT used by people who require strong ...
although I'll point out that LN and ecash are NOT used by people who require strong privacy assurances.
not becasue they dont theoretically provide them
but because they're still experimental and it often isn't known what privacy guarantees you are getting.
to put it another way,
LN and ecash give normies a way to opt out of default dragnet surveillance.
but they aren't (yet) a proven replacement for private value transfer in a highly adversarial environment.
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