Episode notes
Seres Istvan [@Istvan_A_Seres] discusses a recent peer reviewed research paper defines 4 privacy guarantees that the Bitcoin Lightning Network seeks to offer. The existence of a non-announced private channel should not be known by the adversary. Third party observers should not learn about the balance of a payment channel. Nodes in the route of a payment should not be able to discover the sender and receiver of the payment. Finally, no outside observer should learn information about the route of a payment.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00764.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00333.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09432.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09256.pdf
