With Phoenix, you weren’t actually opening a channel with an outside node.
Your channel(s) were between Phoenix’s central node and a “virtual node” for you.
Then they could open outbound channels to a bunch of other nodes. This simple aspect removes a lot of friction for the user.
But as Deleted Account (npub1t0n…jgqv) alluded to, there is a lot of visibility and lack of privacy on Phoenix’s end. They can see everything going on.
PentaSophia / Penta Sophia
npub18s…4svu2
2024-06-25 06:14:29
in reply to nevent1q…5674
Author Public Key
npub18sxgm6fg7ejgvz9pmvqn5eqhhcrcssl6pu6d6zzgl9460gutn3wqy4svu2Published at
2024-06-25 06:14:29Event JSON
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