Chainalysis on Lightning Network #LightningFriday 12/17/2021 with Jestopher and Chaz

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 ------------------------------------------------ Chainaylsis Announcement: https://twitter.com/LNJunkies/status/1469357060479328259 Samourai: https://samouraiwallet.com/ Anthony Ronning Privacy Article: https://abytesjourney.com/lightning-privacy/ VALUE 4 VALUE ------------------------------------------------ 💸 Support us by getting Bitcoin Back with Fold: https://sicksub.network/signup4fold ₿ Catch all the Lightning Network programming at Bitcoin 2022 using coupon code LIGHTNINGJUNKIES: https://sicksub.network/Bitcoin2022 📡 Listen on https://newpodcastapps.com 🙌Support us here: https://lightningjunkies.net/support FOLLOW US ------------------------------------------------ ⚡💉 Lightning Junkies blog: https://lightningjunkies.net 🐤  Lightning Junkies on Twitter: https://sicksub.network/LNJunkies 😏 Chaz on Twitter: https://sicksub.network/TheChaz 🐱 Lightning Cat on Twitter: https://sicksub.network/LNJCat