A proposal on lightning-dev called “rendez-vous” routing, a new routing schema that could increase the privacy of the payee without affecting the payment model, we explore what it is and why it is needed.
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On of the pros of Bitcoin since its birth is that it’s a public ledger, anyone is allowed to send and receive payments and data on the Blockchain. However, Bitcoin’s network does not provide a way of encrypting communication between nodes, which allows manipulation of data, mass surveillance and analysis of its users.
Although encrypted communication is currently a possibility with VPNs, TOR or other mechanisms, it is not easy for the average user to setup such a connection. There is BIP draft called BIP151 that aims to add encrypted communication to Bitcoin’s network and which currently seems implemented only by Armory.
Jonas Schnelli presented an overhauled version for BIP 151 with some major changes:
A programmer and researcher, Brad Denby who’s team formerly proposed a BIP called Dandelion, published an update to the project.
We’re writing with an update on the Dandelion project. As a reminder, Dandelion is a practical, lightweight privacy solution that provides Bitcoin users formal anonymity guarantees. While other privacy solutions aim to protect individual users, Dandelion protects privacy by limiting the capability of adversaries to deanonymize the entire network.