7.1 Blockchain privacy of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Wasabi Wallet
Lightning's two-layer privacy model exposes vulnerabilities on both on-chain and off-chain layers: adversaries can perform transaction graph analysis on channel opens/closes visible on the Bitcoin mainnet, and simultaneously monitor the Lightning gossip layer by running a node. The argument that Lightning provides privacy because payments don't appear on-chain ignores that adversaries operate on b

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