Quote from: realr0ach on January 12, 2019, 12:53:33 PM

Quote from: fluidjax on January 12, 2019, 12:45:12 PM

If a party decides to censor you simply try an alternative route
How will they control ALL the lightning nodes, anyone can start a node.

I already answered that. Lightning nodes are NOT invisible. Nor are football stadium sized mining facilities. If you think a professional money laundering enterprise - that's what freelance lightning nodes will be known by to the govt - are somehow immune to govt regulation when they can easily come knock on your door, you're out of your mind:

Quote from: realr0ach on January 12, 2019, 12:21:14 PM

Anything that has an easily identifiable physical or digital surface attack vector will be enveloped by the current system. Claiming you're going to run a wildcat Lightning node is like claiming you're going to be some type freelance illegal porn distributor and the FBI is not going to kick in your door.

Yes lightning Nodes are not invisible, but when you receive a lightning TX and you forward-it on to another node, you have no idea where it is ultimately going too, and where it has ultimately come from. You only know the next hop in the chain forwards and backwards which is insufficient to meaningfully censor.

If my node is being refused a channel to a 'hub' I simply open a channel to another node which connects to the 'hub' and all is well. You can't force everyone to censor.