7.6 The Bitcoin Lightning Network is a small world
Wasabi Wallet
Lightning routes payments through onion-encrypted paths, but the network exhibits small-world graph properties where most payments use 1-2 hops. This allows adversary routers to infer they're the sole router and identify both sender and receiver, despite obscured path length.

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