From d2122ca0050e4893e454c35f623e62e0e3b16ab5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olaoluwa Osuntokun Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:10:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ch01: relax description of LN privacy --- ch01.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch01.asciidoc b/ch01.asciidoc index 77f247b..8dee0e8 100644 --- a/ch01.asciidoc +++ b/ch01.asciidoc @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Users of the LN are able to route payments to each other at virtually no cost an Users who transact on the LN do not need to wait for block confirmations for payments. Once a payment on the LN has completed, it is final and cannot be reversed: like a Bitcoin transaction, a payment on the LN can only be refunded by the recipient. While "on-chain" Bitcoin transactions are broadcast and verified by all nodes in the network, transactions routed on the LN are transmitted between pairs of nodes and not visible to everyone, resulting in much greater privacy. -The LN uses onion routing, similar to the protocol used by The Onion Router (TOR) privacy network, so that even the nodes involved in routing a transaction are incapable of identifying the source, recipient, or route. +The LN uses onion routing, similar to the protocol used by The Onion Router (TOR) privacy network, so that even the nodes involved in routing a transaction are only directly aware of their predecessor and successor in route. === Motivation for the Lightning Network