Original archived Re: [Anonymity] Can I get rid of KYC trace through Lightning?
Scraped on 15/06/2025, 08:15:28 UTC
But my question was mostly just technical - to better understand these things. So far I haven't parted with a single SAT yet. I don't trade or anything like that.
Yes the trail breaks when you transfer Munn to Speed via LN because it's happening offline and only who control the entry as well as exit nodes can link that if they want to and it is almost impossible via chain analysis to link back the transfer with KYCed address unless you reuse the address again to link with any KYCed funds again.
I have following questions about your statement.
1. How exactly Muun wallet able to send Bitcoin on LN in offline manner? Unless i missed it, their website[1] and blog[2] doesn't mention such feature.
2. What do you mean by entry and exit node? LN whitepaper[3] have exactly 0 mention of "entry node" and "exit node".
how much resources would a state employ, to go after a random citizen who might have spend 50 bucks of BTC on a dinner, without declaring capital gains on it?
They won't go after one particular random citizen, they'll just analyze everything they can and see what comes out.
I generally agree. But on few cases, government provide incentive to both government worker and eligible citizen to report financial-related crime.
[1]
https://github.com/muun[2]
https://blog.muun.com/[3]
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf