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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