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rationalisttoday at 2:11 PM1 replyview on HN

> decently anonymous

"decently"?

It's either anonymous or not.

And the lightning node operator can see the transactions, so no, it's not anonymous.


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littlecranky67today at 2:30 PM

Anonymity is not binary 0 or 1. There is a difference in there is a one-in-a-million chance that you made a payment, is not the same as there is a one-in-three chance you did the payment. You can define anonymity to be a one-in-a-billion chance, and all lower odds as "not anonymous". But that is not applicable in the real world.